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Name: Rusyn

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Ruthenian; Carpathian; Carpatho-Rusyn; Lemko; Lemkovschina

Spoken in: Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania

Number of speakers: 560,000 in Ukraine (2000). Population total all countries: 623,960 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 1000000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 610120 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: rue

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Dialect Group: Old Ruthenian; Ruthenian; Old Kyivan Language; Old Belarusian; Old Belorussian; Old Ukraininan; Simple Ruthenian; Old West Russian; Lithuanian-Russian; Lithuanian-Slavonic; Russian-Polish (orv-olr)

Child Dialects: Pryashiv Rusyn (rue-pry) Hutsul (rue-hut) Bačka (rue-bac) Subcarpathian Rusyn (rue-sur) Pannonian Rusyn (rue-par) Dolinian Rusyn (rue-dor) Lemko (rue-lem) Boyko; Boiko (rue-boy)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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