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>The reason is that the adjective ruskie is typically understood as "Russian" in general parlance I’m not a native speaker, but I always heard that the Greek d
by mikrl 3y ago
>The reason is that the adjective ruskie is typically understood as "Russian" in general parlance
I’m not a native speaker, but I always heard that the Greek derived Rosyjski/Rosjanin/Rosjanka were for Russians (ie the ethnic majority in the Russian Federation) but Ruskie was still reserved for the Rus’ in general.
I’ve had native speaking members explain the distinction to me, that ruskie is more of a catch-all term for the Rus’ peoples. Then again, my family hails from northeast and southeast Poland near the borders with the Rus’.
- grozmovoi 3y ago"Ruskie" vs "Rosyjskie" is a difference between common speech and more proper grammar, but in regular usage of the language they both mean the adjective "Russian". I'm native.
- mikrl 3y agoI assume the average person does not care about what Rus’ means versus Russian, Belarusian, and so on? Is there a tendency to group them together? As Russians or as Rus’? There is a lot of cultural context that Western Europeans (inc myself) are not aware of.