Boykos

Boykos
Бойки
	Boyko family of Maniava, late 19th century
Regions with significant populations
Ukraine	131 (2001)
Poland	258 (2011)
Languages
	Boiko dialect of the Rusyn language, Ukrainian
Religion
	Eastern Catholic, Orthodox Christianity
Related ethnic groups
	Ukrainians · Rusyns · Lemkos · Hutsuls

The Boykos (Boyko: Бойки, romanized: Bojki, Ukrainian: бойки, romanized: boiky; Polish: Bojkowie; Slovak: Pujďáci), or simply Highlanders (верховинці, verkhovyntsi or ґоралы, goraly), are an ethnolinguistic group located in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland. The Boykos are often considered either a stand-alone ethnicity or a sub-group of Rusyns or of Ukrainians, alongside the neighbouring Lemkos and Hutsuls and speak a dialect of Rusyn language. Within Ukraine the Boykos and other Rusyns are seen as a sub-group of ethnic Ukrainians, and within Ukraine the Rusyn language is regarded as part of a dialect continuum within Ukrainian.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] Boykos differ from their neighbors in dialect, dress, folk architecture, and customs.

^ Ukrainian Census 2001
^ Ludność. Stan i struktura demograficzno-społeczna. Narodowy Spis Ludności i Mieszkań 2011 (National Census of Population and Housing 2011). GUS. 2013. p. 264.
^ Vasyl Greshchuk. Lexicographical Studies on the Southwestern Dialects of the Ukrainian Language
^ The Vanishing Galician Lexicon and How It Lingers in the Diaspora
^ Ivanochko Κ. Μ. ACCENT VARIANCE OF STRUKTURAL CLASS IX VERBS IN SOUTHWESTERN SUPRADIALECT OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE
^ [Richard T.Schaefer (ed.), 2008, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Volume 1, Sage Publications, p. 1341.
^ James Stuart Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas & Nicholas Charles Pappas, 1994, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 109–110.

[UCensus2001-1] Ukrainian Census 2001

[stat-2] Ludność. Stan i struktura demograficzno-społeczna. Narodowy Spis Ludności i Mieszkań 2011 (National Census of Population and Housing 2011). GUS. 2013. p. 264.

[3] Vasyl Greshchuk. Lexicographical Studies on the Southwestern Dialects of the Ukrainian Language

[4] The Vanishing Galician Lexicon and How It Lingers in the Diaspora

[5] Ivanochko Κ. Μ. ACCENT VARIANCE OF STRUKTURAL CLASS IX VERBS IN SOUTHWESTERN SUPRADIALECT OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

[Schaefer-6] [Richard T.Schaefer (ed.), 2008, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Volume 1, Sage Publications, p. 1341.

[Olson-7] James Stuart Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas & Nicholas Charles Pappas, 1994, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 109–110.

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