Hutsuls
гуцули | |
|---|---|
Hutsul family from western Ukraine, 1925–1939 | |
| Total population | |
| >26,400 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ukraine | 23,900 (2001) |
| Romania | At least 2,500 |
| Languages | |
| Hutsul dialect, Rusyn language, Ukrainian, Romanian | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Eastern Orthodox | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Boykos, Lemkos, Rusyns, Pokutians | |
The Hutsuls are an East Slavic ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and northern Romania (i.e. parts of Bukovina and Maramureș).
In Ukraine, they have often been officially and administratively designated a subgroup of Ukrainians, and, among Ukrainian scholars, are largely regarded as constituting part of the broader Ukrainian ethnicity. However, in the eyes of some scholars and of some Hutsuls, they are either their own nation, or a part of the Rusyn nation, alongside the closely related ethnic groups of Boykos and Lemkos.