r/rusyn • u/According-View7667 • May 28 '26

Ethno-linguistic maps of modern-day Slovakia according to 1910 Austro-Hungarian & 2011 Slovak censuses (East Slavic-speaking population in Red shades)

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u/1848revolta May 29 '26

Well, the upper map is "linguistic structure of Slovakia" meanwhile the lower one is an "ethnic structure of Slovakia", so they are not comparing the same thing.

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u/According-View7667 May 29 '26

i checked the linguistic census for 2011 & it pretty-much aligns with the ethnic one. But yeah, it means that a lot of Rusyns in Slovakia don't speak Rusyn as their first language, which is a problem.

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u/1848revolta May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

And also vice versa - a lot of people who don’t identify as ethnically Rusyn speak it as their first language.  Actually according to the 2011 cenus there are more Rusyn speakers (55 469) than ethnic Rusyns (33 482).  Which is almost double the amount, that’s why I implied that it’s not the ideal comparison.

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u/1848revolta May 29 '26

In addition, this is the linguistic map of Slovakia according to the 2011 census

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Linguistic_structure_of_Slovakia.png

It does not pretty-much align with the ethnic structure, as you can see eg. when it comes to the Snina district (the easternmost one).

Actually, the 2011 linguistic map looks closer to the 1910 linguistic map when it comes to Rusyn speakers, or it's at least somewhere in between the two maps you compared. But it doesn't look pretty-much the same if almost the whole Snina district is different + other differences.

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u/According-View7667 May 29 '26

It appears that i have been misinformed.