Every summer when I was little, my mother would pack a big roasted chicken wrapped in aluminum foil, a giant blue suitcase, the four of us and our dad, and we would board the train to go and spend the summer in Mykolaiv, a port city in Southern Ukraine.
A super interesting and intriguing choice Tanya! Ruthenian was the official written language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Lithuanian part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. So people studying Medieval History in Lithuania usually have Ruthenian as a compulsory subject. During my studies (Turkology) I also came across books of Lithuanian Tatars written in a mix of Ruthenian/Old Belarusian/Polish using the Arabic script. I wonder how different is modern Ruthenian and how much media is available in it.
Wow I didn't now about its connection to Lithuania. And wow, a slavic language written in the Arabic script - super interesting. I haven't found much media, unfortunately. There is a bilingual (Rusyn/English) book of Rusyn folktales that I'd really love to get my hands on but I haven't found a place that has it AND that can deliver it to Israel.
A super interesting and intriguing choice Tanya! Ruthenian was the official written language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Lithuanian part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. So people studying Medieval History in Lithuania usually have Ruthenian as a compulsory subject. During my studies (Turkology) I also came across books of Lithuanian Tatars written in a mix of Ruthenian/Old Belarusian/Polish using the Arabic script. I wonder how different is modern Ruthenian and how much media is available in it.
Wow I didn't now about its connection to Lithuania. And wow, a slavic language written in the Arabic script - super interesting. I haven't found much media, unfortunately. There is a bilingual (Rusyn/English) book of Rusyn folktales that I'd really love to get my hands on but I haven't found a place that has it AND that can deliver it to Israel.