RАZVОЈ RUSINSKОG ЈЕZIKА I NJЕGОVIH PRАVОPISNIH
DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUTHENIAN LANGUAGE AND ITS ORTHOGRAPHY STANDARDS IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: At the founding meeting, on the 2nd of July 1919 in Novi Sad, Ruthenian / Rusyn national community decided to elevate its colloquial language (not the Russian or Ukrainian languages) to the level of a literary language. The first cultural-educational organization adopted resolution to use its everyday speech in the education, cultural life and the press. The most influential book of the time was the first Ruthenian grammar (Grammar of Bačka-Ruthenian Speech, 1923) by Havrijil Kosteljnik. Four decades have passed since publishing the first and the only Orthographic Rule-Book of the Ruthenian Language by Mikola M. Kočiš (1971). The orthography achieved its main goal - to establish the basic orthographic principles. Although some of the secondary problems were not treated in the first Ruthenian orthography it was very useful and influential. During the last two decades the need for a new orthography has arisen. Тhe Department of Ruthenian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad is about to publish an orthographic dictionary of the Ruthenian language. It is expected to solve the remaining problems.

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