Rusyn texts

[Daniel Buncic]

Dear all,

after there has been so much discussion about the Rusyn language, I thought
my introduction into the East Slavic languages next term should not have to
do without Rusyn. However, I would like my students to find similarities and
differences between these languages inductively through comparing texts with
the same content, e.g. passages from the Bible or from the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (or maybe from Ostrovskij's "Kak zakaljalas'
stal'", as used in Kondrashov's "Slavjanskie jazyki", Moscow 1956?).
However, I could not find a Rusyn Bible neither in our library nor on the
web, and among the 329 translations of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights there is no Rusyn translation (cf.
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm).

Can anyone help me find at least short texts in any of the Rusyn varieties
that also exist in the other East Slavic languages? Do you know whether
Bible translations into Rusyn exist at all?

Please answer off-list, then I will post a summary. Thank you very much in
advance.

Daniel Buncic
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Slavistisches Seminar der Universität Bonn
Lennéstraße 1, D-53113 Bonn
Telefon: +49 228 73-7203
E-Mail: dbuncic at web.de, d.buncic at uni-bonn.de
Homepage: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~dbuncic/
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