Бойки | |
|---|---|
 Boyko family of Maniava, late 19th century | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Ukraine | 131 (2001)[1] |
 Poland | 258 (2011)[2] |
| Languages | |
| Ukrainian | |
| Religion | |
| Eastern Catholic, Orthodox Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Ukrainians · Rusyns · Lemkos · Hutsuls | |
The Boykos (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. Along with the neighbouring Lemkos and Hutsuls, the Boykos are considered a sub-group of Ukrainians and speak a dialect of Ukrainian language. Within Ukraine the Boykos and other Rusyns are seen as a sub-group of ethnic Ukrainians[3][4] 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.
- ^ [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.