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Русински језик у Републици Србији / Војводини
The Ruthenian Language in the Republic of Serbia / Vojvodina

Author(s): Mihajlo P. Fejsa
Subject(s): Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Ruthenian language; Rusyns / Ruthenians in Vojvodina / Serbia; minority rights;

Summary/Abstract: The ancestors of Rusyns / Ruthenians settled in the central Bačka region in the mid-eighteenth century. The author tries to explain how it was possible for 25 000 people to standardize their language out of the vernacular – from the confessional schools and the first Ruthenian cultural organization (1919) to the high shool in Ruski Krstur (1945) and the Department of Ruthenian Studies in Novi Sad (1972). At the end of the twentieth century A. D. Duličenko described the Ruthenian language as a sociologically distinct Slavic microlanguage. Nowadays minority rights are protected by international (UNO, CEU, OSCE) documents, hence the Ruthenian language in Vojvodina / Serbia has a future.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 217-223
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Serbian