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Goryuns (also Goriuns, Goryuny) is a little-documented ethnic group of East Slavs living around Putyvl in Sumy Oblast of Ukraine. The dialect of the Russian language spoken by Goryuns has some features of Belarusian and Ukrainian.
Goryuns are usually considered to represent a tiny sub-ethnos of Russians . James Stuart Olson describes them as a Ukrainized subgroup of the Polekh, or "Russian settlers mixed with local Belarusians and Lithuanians". Regardless, they consider themselves to be distinct from other Russians, as well as Ukrainians living in the same region . They are known for their unique style of polyphonic singing.
There are different views on the origin of Goriuns. Accoring to a certain Klimchuk, the Goryuns may be descendants of local Siverians or they might be of mixed Siverians-Radimich stock.
Referencies
- ^ F.D. Klimchuk, About ethnoliguistic history of Left Bank of Dnieper (in conection to the ethnogenesis of Goriuns). Published in "Goriuns: history, language, culture" Proceedings of Internatinal scientific conferenc, (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, February 13, 2004)
- Russians in Ukraine
- Olson, James Stuart. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0313274975. Page 554.
- Radio Free Europe about the Goryuns