"We the official representatives of the national organization
of Rusyns in Slovakia - the Rusyn Renaissance, who have assembled here
in the capital city of our country, the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, before
representatives of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and guests
from here and abroad, do hereby solemnly proclaim that starting today,
our Rusyn language is declared a normative, codified language. Starting
today, the Rusyn language becomes the literary language of Rusyns in Slovakia"(excerpt
of the January 27, 1995 formal declaration of the completed codification
of the Rusyn language in Slovakia in Bratislava)
This is a truly monumental event in the history of the Rusyn people.
It means that in Slovakia the Rusyn language can now be formally taught
in schools and can be used for radio and television programming (as the
Backa" variant of Rusyn is already, among Rusyns in Serbi'a Vojvodina
region). So far, these texts have been published: a book of orthographic
and spelling rules; a Rusyn-Slovak-Ukrainian-Russian-Polish dictionary
of grammatical terminology; and two elementary school textbooks - a primer
(Bukvar') and reader (Citanka).
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