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| | Rusyns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Rusyns, also called Ruthenes, Rusins, Rysin, Carpatho-Rusin, Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the Ruthenians that did not become Ukrainians in the 19th century. |
 | | Before the 18th century, the inhabitants of wider Ruthenian region (present day Ukraine) were named "Ruthenians" or "Ruthenes" (Rusini or Rusiny) in Poland, and "Little Ruthenians" (Malorusiny or "Little Russians", Maloross in Russia, and their language was known as Ruthenian (Malorossian), and it was closest to the modern Ukrainian language. |
 | | Rusyn, less accurately referred to as the Ruthenian language, is in substance like Ukrainian, enough so that the Ukrainian government considers it merely a dialect of Ukrainian, to the intense resentment of Ruthenians. |
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