PRÍSPEVKY O JAZYKU RUSÍNOV V SLOVENSKEJ MEDZIVOJNOVEJ TLAČI
CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF RUTHENIANS IN THE SLOVAK PRESS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: In the absence of their own press until the World War One, the Ruthenians subscribed to the publications of the Slovaks in Vojvodina. Shortly after the war ended, they were subscribing to the newspaper Národná jednota, and later also to Národný kalendár. These publications, among the rest, provided information on Rhuthenian cultural events and mutual Slovak-Ruthenian’s relations. The first cultural contacts between Slovaks and Ruthenians in Vojvodina were probably due much to their linguistic and national closeness. The first attempts of some Czechoslovak authors, to clarify the question of the linguistic affiliation of Yugoslav Ruthenians, which were the first published articles on this subject in the Slovak Vojvodinian press, also appeared. As there were tendencies of appropriation of the Ruthenian nation as a Slovak or Ukrainian nation, the scientific work also raised questions about the Ruthenian language belonging to certain language groups. At present, the Ruthenian language has more codifications: the oldest has Ruthenian language in Serbia and Croatioa, and more recently, Ruthenian languages in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine also receive their codifications or standards. There were not many articles on the language of the Ruthenians in publications of the Vojvodina Slovaks in the interwar period. Regardless of some inaccuracies, they still contributed to maintaining the continuity of interest of Vojvodina Slovaks in all aspects of the Ruthenian national-cultural fife in Vojvodina. This interest escalated especially after the Second World War, when there came to an intensive mutual translation and publication of children’s and adult literature in both Slovak and Ruthenian publications

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