Abstract
The Polycentric Standardization of the Rusyn Language
 Pursuant to the conclusions of the First Rusyn Language Congress held in Bardejovske Kupele (Slovakia) in 1992 Rusyn language planners are advised to follow the so-called Romansh model of the construction of a literary language (the Romansh language is spoken in five standardized idioms in South-Eastern Switzerland). This implies that each country inhabited by Rusyns should codify its own variant of the literary language based on the live local Rusyn language. Thus there emerge four variants of the Rusyn language: the Bačka-Srem variant (in Serbia and Croatia), the Prešov variant (in Slovakia), the Lemko variant (in Poland), and the Trans-Carpathian variant (in Ukraine; used in Romania and Hungary as well). The paper brings attention to the status and perspectives of the four variants of the Rusyn language. The Rusyn language codification process may be viewed as polycentric standardization.
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