Language/dialect

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....80% ? There's no % which could say :this will be a language and this one a dialect. As for CZECH and SLOVAK languages: there's  a real 100 % comprehension between these two LANGUAGES. Between  SARDINIAN dialect and ITALIAN language is NO COMPREHENSION  - so according to Don  Livingston's ideas Sardinian should be automatically a language. And what about a  dialect of Trieste(Italy).It's really uncomprehensive dialect  for the rest of Italian people.
We need something more  than a percentage to distinguish
a dialect from the language. 
Back to Rusyns: When in 1945 June 29 Czechoslovak republic had to give to the USSR its east territory Podkarpatska Rus'(which suddenly became Zakarpatskaja Ukrajina) - about 150.000 Lemkovskije Rusini  and 12.000 Rusyns from Presov region where transported (more or less democratically)to a Soviet Ucraine.And both Slovak and Ucraine Communist parties  begun with their forced national politics.In Presov region were applicated ucraine national politic(Desicion from 1952 Communist party of Slovak).
So,no wonder,that Rusyns  are looking for their freedom,indipendence and a language.
Katarina Peitlova,PhDr.

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