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Rusyn (not Ruthenian)

In modern English, including Wikipedia, the language shown in orange and brown stripes (in west Ukraine, east Slovakia and south-east Poland) is known as the Rusyn language.

"Ruthenian" is avoided because it is ambiguous and an exonym: until the 1920s, the term "Ruthenian language" referred to both Rusyn and Ukrainian. (And in the remote past to Belarusian and Russian too.)

Can we have the label corrected please?

Grant | Talk 04:42, 16 September 2016 (UTC)