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Rusyns of Romania
Total population
262 (2002 census) 834 (2021 census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Romania (Maramureș)
Languages
Rusyn (native), Romanian, Ukrainian
Religion
Mainly Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Rusyns
The Rusyns (Rusyn: Русины, romanized: Rusynŷ, Romanian: Ruteni) are an ethnic minority in Romania.
While only 262 people officially identified themselves as "Rusyns" in the 2002 Romanian census,[2] 3,890 people identified as Hutsuls (Romanian: Huțuli; Rusyn Hutsuly).[3] According to the 2021 Romanian census, there were 834 people (0.004% of the population) who identified themselves officially as Rusyns, and 594 who declared that their language was Rusyn.[4] Among the self-declared Rusyns, 179 declared that they spoke Romanian, 90 Ukrainian, 4 Russian, and 545 Rusyn.[5] In the 2011 Romanian census, there were 257 self-identified Rusyns in Romania.[6] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2015, there were 345 ethnic Ukrainians born in Romania who lived in the United States of America at that time.[7] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2015, there were no ethnic Carpatho-Rusyns born in Romania who lived in the United States of America at that time among the 156 foreign-born Carpatho-Rusyns[8] and the 8,003 Carpatho-Rusyns living in the United States.[9] By contrast, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2015, there were 345 ethnic Ukrainians born in Romania who lived in the United States of America at that time.[10]
Another 61,091 Romanian citizens identified as Ukrainian (Romanian: Ucrainieni). According to the 2021 Romanian census, 45,835 individuals declared that they were ethnic Ukrainians (0.24%), and 40,861 declared their mother tongue as Ukrainian; among the ethnic Ukrainians, 39,326 stated that their mother tongue was Ukrainian, and 15 said that it was Rusyn.[11] As the archaic exonym Ruthenians was previously applied to both Rusyns and Ukrainians, some Ukrainian-Romanians may also regard themselves as Rusyns (without declaring themselves to, or being identified by, census collectors). Ukrainian-Romanians live primarily in northwestern Romania; the largest populations are found in Satu Mare and Maramureș counties.[citation needed]
As an officially recognised ethnic minority, Rusyns have a reserved seat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, which is currently held by a party called the Cultural Union of Ruthenians of Romania.[12] In 2020, the political group obtained 3,779 votes (0.06%), while the Union of Ukrainians of Romania obtained 5,457 votes (0.09%) in the Chamber of Deputies election.[13]
^"Comunicat de presă Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021", at https://web.archive.org/web/20221230125029/https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/cp-date-provizorii-rpl_2.pdf , p. 11.
^"Romania's ethnographic regions - the Hutsul". Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
^"Comunicat de presă
Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și
Locuințelor, runda 2021", at https://web.archive.org/web/20221230125029/https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/cp-date-provizorii-rpl_2.pdf
, p. 11 (on ethnicity) and p. 12 (on language).
^ "Comunicat de presă Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021", at https://web.archive.org/web/20221230125029/https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/cp-date-provizorii-rpl_2.pdf , p. 13-14 (on the cross-tabulation of ethnicity and language).
^https://insse.ro/cms/files/rpl2002rezgen1/14.pdf
^"Explore Census Data".
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^"Explore Census Data".
^ "Comunicat de presă Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021", at https://web.archive.org/web/20221230125029/https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/cp-date-provizorii-rpl_2.pdf , p. 13-14 (on the cross-tabulation of ethnicity and language).
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