Iazychie (Ukrainian:Язичіє,romanized: Yazychiie;Rusyn:Язычіє,romanized: Yazŷchiie) was an artificial literaryEast Slavic language used in the 19th century and the early 20th century inHalychyna,Bukovina, andZakarpattia in publishing, particularly by Ukrainian andCarpatho-RusynRussophiles (Moskvophiles).[1][2] It was an unsystematic combination of Russian with the lexical, phonetic and grammatical elements of vernacular Ukrainian andRusyn,Church Slavonic,Ruthenian,Polish, andOld Slavic.[1][2]
The term was introduced by Ukrainophiles, who used it pejoratively.[3]Nikolay Chernyshevsky called "Iazychie" a mutilation of the language and sharply condemned it.[1]Ivan Franko and other representatives of the contemporary territories of today'sWestern Ukraine's progressiveintelligentsia also opposed "Iazychie".[1] The proponents of the language themselves called it the "traditional Carpatho-Rusyn language".[4] Russophiles saw it as a tool against Polish influence and a transition to Russian literary language, considering local dialects to be a "speech of swineherds and shepherds".[5]
Що єсть тепло и свѣтло — того дово̂дно оучени̂ єще не знаютъ. Но безъ свѣтла и тепла нїяка изъ нашихъ пашниць не може оудатися. —Свѣтло, здаеся, возбуджае въ рослинахъ силу, которою они оуглянный квасъ, амонїякъ, воду, и другое поживлѣнье розкладаютъ на части, зъ ıакихъ тїи рѣчи повстаютъ, — и — потребное въ себе вживаютъ, остальное же назадъ воздухови о̂тдаютъ. На пр. оугляный квасъ розкладаютъ они на єго части, на квасородъ и оуглеродъ, и оуглеродъ вживаютъ въ себе, квасородъ же о̂тдаютъ воздухови, и тымъ способомъ воздухъ все о̂тсвѣжуютъ. Но все то дѣесялишь днемъ при свѣтлѣ солнечно̂мъ, ночїю же нѣ; и также днемъ при захмарено̂мъ небѣ робота тая оуже имъ складно не иде, а для тоговъ хмарнїи роки овощи николи не буваютъ смачни̂ та тревали̂. (1875)
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