Rusins, Rusyns, Ruthenians?

[Margarita Orlova]

The Rusyns - Ruthenians just don't agree with the English  
pronounciation :)

  I do not agree with it either: you know, the Americans call me  
"rush-in", and i do not want to rush anywhere :)
Actually, I am Rooskaa. That is my ethnic spelling, if is to follow  
your logic, dear Martyn ;)

The Americans cannot deny my existence, though :) There are too many  
Russians...

Thus, to protect the disappearing languages we can suggest to rename  
them in English -- back into their original pronounciation!

May it become a really helpful measure?

Sorry for kidding, it is just the logic which leads me there (:

Thanks a lot for your references!
I really appreciate them!

Margarita


On Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at 10:18  PM, Martin Votruba wrote:

>> 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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