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Originally posted by Andy:
What does codified mean? It means that a grammar has been written for it and spelling has been regularized, etc. Remembering a living language is not just the written but also the spoken language and that it is not static, the purpose is not to create a language but to identify some parameters within which to recognize that language and also some prescriptions for its use.
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Originally posted by Andy:
In Europe, are there any native speakers left of Rusyn? In the 2001 census of the Slovak Republic, 55 thousand individuals indicated that their mother tongue is Rusyn. Slovakia is one of the three countries of the European Rusyn "homeland" with a significant Rusyn population, but contains only about one sixth of the number of Rusyns that live in Ukraine.
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Originally posted by Tony:
In Vojvodina (modern Yugoslavia) Except that a few days ago, Yugoslavia ceased to exist. It's now the country of Serbia and Montenegro. 
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Originally posted by Lemko Rusyn: Originally posted by Tony:
[b]In Vojvodina (modern Yugoslavia) Then Vojvodina in modern (northern) Serbia.
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Dear Friends,
It seems to me that a much more important issue when comparing Ukies and Ruthenians with the view to discussing grounds for "merging," is not their separate cultural identities.
What is the more important issue is to what extent their cultural identities/language continues to be a significant factor for both groups in North America.
I would venture to say that cultural identity continues to be highly important to Ukrainians when it seems that Ruthenians here have become largely assimilated culturally with the English mainstream, even to the point of removing any cultural reference in their title "Byzantine Catholic Church."
The differences here are not about "Rusyn/Ukrainian," but about "English/Slavic."
And that makes for a much larger difference and for a much more difficult situation in terms of any sort of "merger" possibilities.
Alex
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