Dialects
The Carpatho Rusyn language can be divided as follows:
| Name | Language area | Annotation |
|---|---|---|
| Hutsul | In the mountainous part of Suceava County and Maramures County in Romania and the extreme southern parts of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine (as well as in parts of the Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian Oblasts), and on the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. | |
| Boyko | Northern side of the Carpathian Mountains in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts of Ukraine. It can also be heard across the border in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (province) of Poland | |
| Lemko | Outside Ukraine in the Prešov Region of Slovakia along the southern side of the Carpathian Mountains. It was formerly spoken on the northern side of the same mountains, in what is now southeastern Poland, prior to Operation Vistula - now used in several diaspora communities scattered in northern Poland | Being revived; in Poland it has the status of an ethnic minority language. A newspaper, Karpatska Rus' has been published in this dialect since 1939. |
| Dolinian Rusyn | Transcarpathian Oblast of Ukraine. | |
| Subcarpathian Rusyn | ||
| Pryashiv Rusyn | The Prešov Region (in Rusyn: "Пряшів" Pryashiv) of Slovakia, as well as by some émigré communities, primarily in the United States of America. | |
| Pannonian Rusyn | Northwestern Serbia and eastern Croatia | One of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. |
| Bačka |
Boiko, Hutsul, Lemko and Dolinian are identified (and for the same speakers) as Ukrainian dialects since most of their speakers identify themselves as Ukrainians.
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