The American Lemko

The American Lemko

This channel is dedicated to present Lemko language and culture.

Lemko is spoken by the Lemko people who originate from the Beskid Niski and Bieszczady Mountains (part of the Carpathian Mountain Range) in the southeastern part of Poland in a region referred to as Lemkovyna. Throughout the centuries, Lemkos have lived in Lemkovyna, however in roughly the last century and a half, their numbers have decreased due to reasons including emigration and forced resettlement, among others. Today, there are Lemko communities primarily in the US, Canada, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Even though the majority is part of the diaspora, some have returned to live in their ancestral homeland. This channel serves as as a way for English speakers to learn Lemko.

Маєран / Majeran

Маєран / Majeran

The Border / Границя

The Border / Границя

Lemko Flag and Anthem

Lemko Flag and Anthem

Interview with Pete Orynycz

Interview with Pete Orynycz

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  • @Melissa-Volchitsa-Rusalka
    @Melissa-Volchitsa-Rusalka12 күн бұрын

    Thank you. This video was very informative. My grandparents on both sides emigrated to Australia in the 1970s from Vojvodina.

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko653711 күн бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @PetroLem
    @PetroLem14 күн бұрын

    Прекрасні! Дуже сердечности од Русиніл з Полщи ❤❤❤

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko653711 күн бұрын

    Дякую красьні!

  • @milengavrylec4667
    @milengavrylec466714 күн бұрын

    Добрі, же українці не кличуть ай вас українцями, як закарпатських руснаку! Дуже радий ім бов чути сю бисіду!

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko653711 күн бұрын

    Дякую красьні!

  • @user-dq2uz7tk6x
    @user-dq2uz7tk6x17 күн бұрын

    😮В Україні ВСІ лемки вважають себе українцями. Є ще бойки, гуцули... А навіщо вам оті демони ісуси?

  • @buickinvicta288
    @buickinvicta28818 күн бұрын

    We might go to Hartsdale. 😊 will you be there?

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko653717 күн бұрын

    That's the plan!

  • @denkodel6516
    @denkodel651620 күн бұрын

    Živili Lemci!! Živili Hrvati 👍

  • @mattthompson6281
    @mattthompson6281Ай бұрын

    And г is г like Ukrainian not х

  • @mattthompson6281
    @mattthompson6281Ай бұрын

    Ы U like in sUn, Under..and it’s weird that ы is U when really in old Slavic U was ъ and Bulgarian still retains this sound and letter ъ

  • @marympostupakakababa3016
    @marympostupakakababa3016Ай бұрын

    ❤Thanks! I'm always looking for music in our tradition language

  • @ivanpetryshyn
    @ivanpetryshynАй бұрын

    Perfective for "to carry" is "prynesty", a ne nosyty.

  • @Mikey-catman
    @Mikey-catmanАй бұрын

    Unfortunately I didn't see lemko or rusyn flags, looks like it is fully overtaken by Ukrainian🫤, have nothing against Ukrainian people being Ukrainian citizen myself. But we different!!!

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko6537Ай бұрын

    The reason why you won't see Lemko/Rusyn flags here is likely due to the organization that runs the vatra in Zdynia. However, you'll still come across Lemkos/Rusyns at the festival (along with Slovaks, Poles and Ukrainians). If you go the vatra in Michałów (near Legnica), it's run by a different organization and you'll see the Lemko/Rusyn flags there

  • @Mikey-catman
    @Mikey-catman28 күн бұрын

    @@theamericanlemko6537 if organization ignores us as different ethnicity, then we should ignore it and take part in their manipulation

  • @ameliakuntz1350
    @ameliakuntz13502 ай бұрын

    I go through this every time trying to explain to someone where my mom's Lemko side of the family comes from 😂 its exhausting but it is what it is.

  • @gogekat3717
    @gogekat37172 ай бұрын

    Za mnje rusnaka zoz ruskoho kerestura najbljizši jasik to slovacki ja bi barz ljubel naj kerestur ma vecej turistoh htorih zanjima o našej istoriji i kulturi

  • @neverstopschweiking
    @neverstopschweiking2 ай бұрын

    Man dies and goes to heaven. Saint Peter asks 'Where were you born?' The man thinks for a moment and says 'Austria-Hungary,' 'Where did you go to school?' 'Poland.' 'Where were you married?' 'The Ukrainian S.S.R.' Surprised, Saint Peter asks 'Where was your first child born?' 'In the German Reich.' 'And where did you die?' 'In the Soviet Union.' Astonished, Saint Peter shouts 'My, you moved around a lot!' 'What are you talking about? I never left our town!'

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko6537Ай бұрын

    Classic!

  • @busandcoach
    @busandcoach2 ай бұрын

    So where you from cnut

  • @manicmangomango8118
    @manicmangomango81182 ай бұрын

    No, your a yank

  • @Glen-qh5xq
    @Glen-qh5xq2 ай бұрын

    I go through this all the time with my friends.

  • @will_adamborn
    @will_adamborn2 ай бұрын

    So you're from Galacia-Lodomeria?

  • @Matlacha_Painter
    @Matlacha_Painter2 ай бұрын

    Thank you cousin!

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65372 ай бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @rogercroitor4962
    @rogercroitor49622 ай бұрын

    So you're ruthenian (carpato-ruthenian)

  • @MikeeVTi
    @MikeeVTi2 ай бұрын

    Csárdás is definitely Hungarian :D Csárda is the main word meaning pub originally ;)

  • @Matlacha_Painter
    @Matlacha_Painter2 ай бұрын

    My blood comes from Brody. I am a Lemko and the second generation of my family born in the United States.

  • @joehulik3969
    @joehulik39692 ай бұрын

    I just had a similar conversation with a lady from Russia yesterday.

  • @rusynnation
    @rusynnation2 ай бұрын

    I was there yesterday 👍

  • @rusynnation
    @rusynnation2 ай бұрын

    Rusyns ❤

  • @FilipDamjanovski78
    @FilipDamjanovski782 ай бұрын

    Hi

  • @paulinahrywniak9882
    @paulinahrywniak98822 ай бұрын

    TRUE!

  • @buickinvicta288
    @buickinvicta2882 ай бұрын

    Perfect! 😊

  • @martysomoco
    @martysomoco2 ай бұрын

    Слава навіки!

  • @georgepavlov3350
    @georgepavlov33502 ай бұрын

    Holy Geez I’m a Canadian born Slovak 1941 and I understand you guys 3/4 mom born in Slovakia Presov Region 1904 Nizny Krucov and dad born 1899 near Uzhorod in Slovakia Hatalov ,I still sing my old Slovak songs

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65372 ай бұрын

    Very cool - thanks for sharing!

  • @Glen-qh5xq
    @Glen-qh5xq2 ай бұрын

    This was so helpful for me and cleared up some things that have puzzled me for years. My (Lemko) father was second generation. He was baptized in the Greek Catholic Church and also received First Communion there. His parents eventually converted to Russian Orthodox in the 1930s. When my Dad married my Roman Catholic mother in 1953 he had to "convert" because he had been Greek Catholic. I makes much more sense now. Thank you.

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65372 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing! Glad you found the video helpful!

  • @michellesteuke3620
    @michellesteuke36203 ай бұрын

    Greets from großweil germany Maceri od kerestura 🤣🥰🥰❤

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65372 ай бұрын

    Danke! Thank you!

  • @romanheletkanycz3530
    @romanheletkanycz35303 ай бұрын

    What is the last name of your 0:57 0:57 0:57 grandparents? I was also baptized in this Church

  • @skuwka95
    @skuwka953 ай бұрын

    Good, kompery, keselycia, palunka

  • @krasnalthegreat
    @krasnalthegreat3 ай бұрын

    I speak Belarusian and polish and understood everything the words are very similar

  • @Lemkyna312
    @Lemkyna3124 ай бұрын

    All in favor in bringing Lemko themed and Carpatho-Rusyn themed clubs to Ohio Valley and other Carpatho-Rusyn areas in the United States, say Aye 🖐🏻

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko6537Ай бұрын

    Aye!

  • @buickinvicta288
    @buickinvicta2884 ай бұрын

    Please do Hopak.❤

  • @josephbertha5865
    @josephbertha58654 ай бұрын

    Such a wonderful video vybornyi! Djakujeme velmi pekni!

  • @brendahaasmarinack6344
    @brendahaasmarinack63444 ай бұрын

    In 2023, we discovered that my ancestors are from the Village of Radoszyce! Family names are Szewczyk, Rudyk, Lencio, Gucz, Tchoryk, Barniak, Cap, Suszko, Hnatko. Thank you for information and videos. Learning all that I can about our heritage and history!

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing! I'm glad you enjoy them. Much luck to your endeavors!

  • @judithbarkan4581
    @judithbarkan45814 ай бұрын

    You are hilarious. I posted this on an Olyphant PA page. The only place in the country with a Lemko Street. My hometown, in Lackawanna county, Scranton PA

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    No way, that's awesome!

  • @denkodel6516
    @denkodel65164 ай бұрын

    I am a Croatian speaker of the ancient Croatian dialect (language) Čakavski from the Adriatic islands. You video is Amazing with beautiful traditions!!! The language has so many similarities to Čakavski! Maybe the ancient “White Croatian” tribe connection 😀😎💪🏽

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Very interesting!

  • @zdravkojovanovic3513
    @zdravkojovanovic35134 ай бұрын

    So so proud of Rusyn brothers and sisters! ❤ Serbia

  • @SergiyParkhomchuk_vyshyvanka
    @SergiyParkhomchuk_vyshyvanka4 ай бұрын

    Привіт з України! Ви молодці.

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Дякую!

  • @Nova-jj6ov
    @Nova-jj6ov4 ай бұрын

    Where's this?

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Lemko Vatra (folk festival) in Zdynia, Poland

  • @skuwka95
    @skuwka95Ай бұрын

    Ставиша

  • @markfiori246
    @markfiori2464 ай бұрын

    These guys are not European lol

  • @Lemkyna312
    @Lemkyna3124 ай бұрын

    Spitting facts 👏 good job my fellow Lemkos🟪🟧🟩

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @myhal-bavyt
    @myhal-bavyt4 ай бұрын

    I demand a potato map on my wall

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Same!

  • @jaantyktrade7052
    @jaantyktrade70524 ай бұрын

    Super!!

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @buickinvicta288
    @buickinvicta2884 ай бұрын

    So interesting, thank you.

  • @theamericanlemko6537
    @theamericanlemko65374 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @buickinvicta288
    @buickinvicta2884 ай бұрын

    This is exactly how my Baba taught me, Yonkers. 😊