Rusins, Rusyns, Ruthenians?

[Martin Votruba]

> To use "the Rusyns" instead "the Ruthenians" may imply the modern
> and  (volatile?) political presumption to support the Orange
> Revolution on  the Ukraine, may it?

If it were Ukrainian.  _Rusyn_, however, reflects the Rusyn spelling, 
see, e.g.:

Pravyla rusynskoho pravopysu, 1995.

... so using another spelling would actually imply... etc.  Moreover, 
Magocsi who is certainly not:

> Should newcoming researchers multiply the entities needlessly?

... a newcomer, see, e.g.:

http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/magocsi.htm

... has argued that _Ruthenian_ has been a broader term that neither 
matches nor entirely overlaps with the term _Rusyn_.  That is why he 
and others have been using _Rusyn_ in US publications about that 
subset of the Eastern Slavs, see, e.g.:

Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography 1, 1975-1984.
Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography 2, 1985-1994.
Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography 3, 1995-1999.

The term _Ruthenian_, when applied to some Rusyn groups in the US, is 
actually rejected with vehemence by them as an attempt to deny their 
existence.


Martin

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu

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