PHONEMES AND THEIR PRONUNCIATION VARIATIONS IN STANDARD RUSIN LANGUAGE IN SLOVAKIA (CONSONANTS)

Standard Rusin language in Slovakia (codified in 1995) provides space for greater linguistic research within individual levels of language; namely the phonetic and phonological level, as in this article. The study presents pronunciation variations of selected consonants in standard Rusin in Slovakia in their individual phonological realisations. The author draws on her original research into the culture of contemporary Rusin spoken in Slovakia, as well as the results by linguists who dealt with Rusin dialects in the past (Olaf Broch, Ivan Paňkevič, Georgij Gerovskij, and others), primarily the research by the phonetician and phonologist Vasi Latta, and the codifier of standard Rusin in Slovakia Vasi Jabur. The study is part of the forthcoming orthoepic norm of standard Rusin in Slovakia.