Editing Rusyn language (section)

=== 19th century ===

By the 19th century, "attempts to write in a form of Russo-Church Slavonic with a Rusyn flavor, or a type of 'Subcarpathian Russian' with Rusyn phonetic features," began to be made. Notably, [[Myxajlo Lučkaj]]'s grammar of the Subcarpathian variety of Church Slavonic, ''Grammatica Slavo-Ruthena'', of 1830 had a "distinctly Rusyn flavor". And while Lučkaj did not support use of vernacular as a literary language (commenting on the proper usage of either {{langx|la|label=none|lingua eruditorum et Communis plebis|translation=the languages of the learned and the languages of the common people}} in his ''Praefatio''), he ''did'' include examples of "Rusyn paradigms" in his work to attempt demonstrate its similarity to Church Slavonic. Lučkaj in effect sought to prove the two languages were close sisters of a common ancestor.{{sfn|Pugh|2009|p=5}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=DANYLENKO |first1=ANDRII |title=Myxajlo Lučkaj — A Dissident Forerunner of Literary Rusyn? |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |date=2009 |volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=201–226 |doi=10.1353/see.2009.0132 |jstor=40650354 |s2cid=152082970 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40650354 |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112004054/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40650354 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1847, Greek Catholic priest [[Alexander Dukhnovych]] published the first textbook written almost fully in common Rusyn vernacular, ''Knyzhytsia chytalnaia dlia nachynaiushchykh'' (A Reader for Beginners).{{sfn|Magocsi|2015|p=105}} Further editions of the primer followed in 1850 and 1852, as well as the establishment of "the first Carpatho-Rusyn cultural organization", the [[Prešov Literary Society]], in 1850. Over the next four years of its existence, the Society would go on to publish a further 12 works, including Dukhnovych's ''Virtue is More Important than Riches'' (the very first play written in Carpatho-Rusyn), as well Carpatho-Rusyn's first literary anthologies in 1850, 1851, and 1852, titled ''Greetings to the Rusyns''.{{sfn|Magocsi|2015|p=145}}