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( Pannonian Rusyn language)
Pannonian Rusyn or simply Rusyn (Ruthenian) is a Slavic language or dialect spoken in north-western Serbia and eastern Croatia (therefore also called Yugoslavo-Ruthenian, Vojvodina-Ruthenian or Backa-Ruthenian). It is closer to West Slavic languages, to Slovak in particular, but also has Eastern Slavic phonetics and vocabulary, as well as the influence from the surrounding Southern Slavic languages (Serbian and Croatian). Pannonian Rusyn is one of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. While it is classified as a microlanguage by the Serbian authors, it is considered a Ukrainian dialect in Ukraine (which does not recognize Rusyns as a nation) and simply as a Rusyn (Ruthenian) dialect by Slovaks and northern Ruthenians. Ethnologue considers it a Slovak dialect. Like the northern Rusyn language, it constitutes a mixture of some Eastern Slovak dialects and East Slavic features (namely, Russian Church Slavonic, Russian and Old Ruthenian). This mixture is because these Rusyns emigrated to Backa from Eastern Slovakia around the middle of the 18th century. Like most modern Ruthenians, they are Greek Catholics and therefore have closer ties with Ukraine. The language also has some Southern Slavic features, and it is sometimes called "a Slavic Esperanto". Since the Rusyn language was officially not recognized in Czechoslovakia and prohibited in Ukraine in the past (Ukrainian was prescribed for Rusyns), the Rusyns in Yugoslavia, where the language was recognized, had to create their own language codification The language has been codified by Mikola Kociš (?????? ?????) in ???????? ??????? ????? (Pravopis ruskoho yazika; "Orthography of Rusyn", 1971) and ????????? ??????? ????? (Gramatika ruskoho yazika; "Grammar of Rusyn", 1974) and is written with Cyrillic letters
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