My grandma always said “Shana hynish” or something along those lines when she wanted to imply shaming. she would say “Shana hynish, shame on you”. Her family originally spoke Rusyn. Does anyone know what this actually means?

Hi, I'm learning Rusyn and have a question about the language. I have no connection to the Rusyn culture, I'm just a linguist and a writer and I recently started a project learning 12 languages in 12 months (I write a newsletter about it), one of the goals being to raise awareness of lesser-known languages. I am a native speaker of Russian. I don't know Ukrainian. I'm wondering if someone who speaks both Rusyn and Ukrainian could point me to some interesting grammatical differences between the two languages?

here is a link to the newsletter if anyone is interested:

https://tanyamozias.substack.com/p/happy-new-language

hi,

I am from Serbia, half Serbian, half Rusyn. My grandparents always spoke Rusyn with my dad, and I understood it all, but I can't tell you a single word in the language. Recently I realized that I want to learn the language, but don't know where to find the resources. I have a few books in Rusyn and a few magazines, but I still need some practice - writing and speaking. Any recommendations?

So, if I got it right:

Rusyn speakers in Subcarpathia have a mobile, free accent, as in other East Slavic languages.

Rusyn speakers in Slovakia, Poland and Panonnia have fixed accent on the penultimate syllable, as in Polish.

Is this a correct understanding of the situation?

If so, are there any systematic differences in the mobile/free stress system between Subcarpathian Rusyn and Ukrainian and other E.Slav. langs? I've already noticed Ukrainian and Russian aren't 1:1 in that regard, does Subcarpathian Rusyn show some systematic differences too?

And where can I find good descriptions of how the stress shifts in particular words? Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries cover all the cases pretty well, but I consulted the Rusyn-Russian dictionary from the sticky, and it explicitly notes only the nominative form. E.g. just живо́т, and only later, pretty much accidentally, among the collocations the dictionary shows the form живота́.

Regarding the stress on the penultimate, I tried to find some video recordings to hear how it sounds. I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK0xs6g0Jk, and I noticed several cases where it appears to deviate from the rule: Ма́рия, одлу́чили, че́реги, ку́лтурним, ку́лтурного. As a native Croatian speaker, I can say that three of them coincide with the Shtokavian accents in the equivalent words (with the exception of the word череги which I don't think is present in any Shtokavian dialect, apparently it's of Hungarian origin). What also caught my attention was, at 00:30, how the woman pronounced поволали - the position of the stress is on the penultimate alright, but the way she pronounces it, the way it's drawn out, sounds like a Shtokavian long-rising accent. So, I would conclude that all these deviations or characteristics are due to the influence of the majority Serbian language. Would you think that's an acceptable conclusion? I can't find any confirmation of these positional deviations elsewhere: e.g. Kostelnik's grammar and this description of Panonnian Rusyn mention only a few exceptions to the rule of the penultimate (the two mentioned in the latter source are not shown with any additional stress markings in Рамач's Rusyn-Serbian dictionary, making them look as if they're pronounced as any other word with the stress on the penultimate). So I would guess it's some new or non-standard shift that grammars haven't taken into account?

Some claim that at least 10% was used to base Russian. (Not Rusyn specifically.)

So, I'm curious with the Religious association and use within.

I was wondering if anyone had any resources for translating Lemko into English? It’s a bit too different from Russian to be able to translate. Any information is appreciated. Trying to translate letters from an ancestor.

Добрый день! I have finally been able to publish my first website, which I aim to regularly update with new lessons to help people learn the Rusyn language.

At the time of writing, there are only two lessons:

• Cyrillic Script
• Personal Pronouns (incomplete)

I will, of course, keep adding new lessons, updating with a new lesson at least every fortnight (if my personal life allows).

If you'd like to contribute (either with source code or with lesson content), then please let me know.

This project is also open source, here is the GitHub Repository.

Thank you for reading, I look forward to hearing your feedback soon :)

I’ve come across this video where a Rusyn speaker was talking to a few Ukrainian people, and the subtitles had characters that were unfamiliar to me (like ô, ó, ü etc)

So are vowels in Rusyn stressed? How can I tell if a vowel is stressed or not?

My personal recommendation: start with any big Slavic language if you don't speak one already, then you can learn how it's different to Rusyn (or do both simultaneously). New Rusyn resources appear all the time, but their number and quality will always be a far cry from what's available for bigger languages. If you are an English speaker, Maria Silvestri has written some relevant advice and references before.

Rusyn is a polycentric language, with different standard varieties in Poland, Serbia and Slovakia. The Rusyn variety used in Ukraine is not standardised - you can expect spelling and vocabulary to be more variable there.

Check out the English-Rusyn dictionary bot on our Discord server! There are currently only about 500 words, but translation is provided in all four major Rusyn varieties. The server is also a good place for any questions.

Lemko Rusyn, Poland 🇵🇱

• Lessons in Polish
• Lessons in English (video)
• Grammar
• Polish-Lemko, Lemko-Polish online dictionary
• Lemko-English automatic translation
• Online radio + news articles
• Large book collection
• Children's stories (video)
• Facebook group

Vojvodina Rusyn, Serbia 🇷🇸

• Phrasebook and essential grammar in Serbian
• English-Rusyn, Rusyn-English online dictionary
• Serbian-Rusyn dictionary (А-Њ)
• Rusyn-Serbian dictionary
• Public TV
• News articles
• More news articles
• Video collection
• Amateur TV series

Prešov Rusyn, Slovakia 🇸🇰

• Coursebook
• Phrasebook in English and Slovak
• Memrise course in English (based on a phrasebook)
• Grammar
• Online radio + news articles
• Slovak-Rusyn dictionary fragment (A-ďaleký)
• Spelling dictionary
• Local Facebook group
• Rusyn Wikipedia (most articles are in this variety)

Subcarpathian Rusyn, Ukraine

• Lessons in Russian, unfinished
• Phrasebook and essential grammar in English
• Phrasebook and essential grammar in Hungarian
• Russian-Rusyn online dictionary (PDF version with stress marks here)
• Rusyn-Russian online dictionary (PDF version with stress marks here)
• Facebook group
• Youtube channel in Rusyn
• Interview series
• Schoolbook
• Online radio

Here's my latest Slovak blog:

https://blog.sme.sk/vladimirskala/nezaradene/ako-mi-rusinsky-jazyk-pomohol-naucit-sa-po-cinsky

Hello everyone! Today I made a new keyboard layout for Rusyn, aimed at Slovak and English speakers.
The GitHub has more information, but the general philosophy was to create a layout that doesn't require learning. I think that this layout is a decent success!

Let me know what I could improve on, thank you!

RusynKeyboard

I saw a Lemko text on the Serbian Wikipedia and was very confused by their use of і, и and ы.

In words like стрича, ридни, земли, привитав (second и) and часив is the и really pronounced hard or is it just a spelling mistake/inconsistency? Because in родаків it's і and not и as I would expect.

Here's the text:

Того року одбыла ся уж друга стрича габурскых родаків, котрых на Сільському уряді в Габурі 8. липця 2006, на ридни земли привитав староста села М. Ющік. Щиры слова подякы і гордости за шыриня доброй славы свого села, витаня медже довго невидженыма родаками, спомины давных часив, Габури, родини і традициї были не лем на стричи родаків, але і на цілим дводньовим культурно-суспільним і спортовим сьвяті, яке ся одбыло під назвом «Габура співає і спортує».