Iazychie
Iazychie (Ukrainian: Язичіє, Yazychiye) was a language variant in the 19th century and the early 20th century in Halychyna, Bukovina, and Zakarpattia in publishing, mostly of a reactionary persuasion, particularly by Ukrainian Russophiles (Moskvophiles).[1] It was an inconsistent combination of lexical, phonetic and grammatical elements of vernacular Ukrainian (including dialects of predominantly southwestern origin), Old Ukrainian (Ruthenian language), Polish, Russian and Old Slavic.[1]
Nikolay Chernyshevsky called "Iazychie" a mutilation of the language and sharply condemned it.[1] Ivan Franko and other representatives of Western Ukraine's progressive intelligentsia also opposed "Iazychie".[1]
Some members of the Rusyn diaspora, such as Paul Robert Magocsi, consider the name pejorative to the Carpatho-Rusyn language.[2]
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