1692: Ruthenian and Rusyn Aug 2, 2019
There were more Ruthenians in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth than Lithuanians, as mentioned yesterday, but since no one speaks it anymore, it is natural to wonder where they all went. The truth is that they didn't go anywhere, more than normal anyhow, but that the language split into several different ones, namely Belarusian, Ukrainian, and controversially, Rusyn. Rusyn, spoken mostly in Slovakia, Serbia, and Poland is the most similar to Ruthenian (occasionally Rusyn is called 'Ruthene') but while those in places like Slovakia, the US and Hungary etc. tend to consider it its own language, Ukrainians, Poles and Serbs etc. hold that it is actually a dialect of Ukrainian.