RE: [Cz-L] Ruthenian

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My Jewish great-grandmother (who died before I was born)=2C reported on US =
Census records that she was from "Austria" and that her first language was =
"Ruthenian"...Now that I'm reading these messages=2C I'm wondering why her =
first language wouldn't have been Yiddish...Any thoughts?
Judy Baker

> Date: Sun=2C 6 May 2012 16:34:06 +0100
> From: alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Ruthenian
> To: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET=3B Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>=20
> Hardy=2C
>=20
> Hahaha=2C it's a good approach and it is good to know somebody who speak=
s Goyish fluently!
> By the way: "Ruthenian" is an old fashioned termfor the Ukrainian languag=
e=20
> which was used in the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy. In the Russian monarch=
y another term=20
> was used: "Malorusskiy" (meaning little Russian)=2C which was gradually r=
eplaced (by the Ukrainians)=20
> with "Ukrainskiy yazyk" or "Ukrayinska mova" in the second half of the XI=
X century.=20
> Ruthenian is today considered a predecessor of the modern Ukrainian and =
Belorussian=2C=20
> it was spoken in late middle ages and early modern times.=20
> It was the main language in the Great Lituanian Kingdom=2C for instance.
>=20
> The term "Ruthenians" (German "Ruthenen") probably derives from the slavo=
nik
> "Rusini"/"Rusene" which probably was the self description of the descenda=
nts of Rus=20
> who lived in in the areas of Great Lituania and Poland.
> Alex
>=20

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