Iazychie (; ) was an artificial literary East Slavic language used in the 19th century and the early 20th century in

Halychyna Galicia ( ;"Galicia"
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, and Zakarpattia in publishing, particularly by Ukrainian and

Carpatho-Rusyn Rusyn ( ; ; )http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2781/1/2011BaptieMPhil-1.pdf , p. 8. is an East Slavic language spoken by Rusyns in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and written in the Cyrillic script. The majority of speakers live in Carpathian Ruth ...

Russophiles (Moskvophiles).Zhovtobryukh, M.A.
Iazychie
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. It was an unsystematic combination of Russian with the lexical, phonetic and grammatical elements of vernacular Ukrainian and Rusyn,

Church Slavonic Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia. The ...

, Ruthenian, Polish, and Old Slavic. The term was introduced by Ukrainophiles, who used it pejoratively.

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called "Iazychie" a mutilation of the language and sharply condemned it.

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and other representatives of the contemporary territories of today's

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's progressive

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also opposed "Iazychie". The proponents of the language themselves called it the "traditional Carpatho-Rusyn language". Russophiles saw it as a tool against Polish influence and a transition to Russian literary language, considering local dialects to be a "speech of swineherds and shepherds".Орест Субтельний, Історія України Orest Subtelny, ''History of Ukraine''">Orest_Subtelny.html" ;"title="Orest Subtelny">Orest Subtelny, ''History of Ukraine'' Section 6.3
archived

Text example

въ хмарнїи роки овощи николи не буваютъ смачни̂ та тревали̂. (1875)

References

External links

* Muromtseva, O.

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