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The Ukrainian alphabet ... Sometimes the apostrophe (') is also included, which has a phonetic meaning and is a mandatory sign in writing, ...
Ukrainian scientists also took part in the development of the new alphabet and graphics. The first images of 32 letters of the new font, which still form the basis for Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian spelling, were printed in the city of Zhovkva near Lviv .
The romanization of Ukrainian, or Latinization of Ukrainian, is the representation of the Ukrainian language in Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet , which is based on the Cyrillic script .
The Ukrainian alphabet displays the following features: Ve (В) represents /ʋ/ (which may be pronounced [w] in a word final position and before consonants). He (Г, г) represents a voiced glottal fricative, (/ɦ/), similar to the respective sound in Belarusian. Ge (Ґ, ґ) appears after He, represents /ɡ/. It looks like He with an "upturn ...
The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceded by Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into two stages: during the 12th to 18th centuries what in Ukraine is referred to as "Old Ukrainian", but elsewhere, and in contemporary sources, is known as the Ruthenian language, and from the end of the 18th century to the present what in ...
This page describes how Ukrainian is romanized in Wikipedia. Ukrainian-language text is written in the Ukrainian alphabet , a variant of Cyrillic . To be accessible to the readers of English-language Wikipedia, it is usually romanized , or transliterated into the Roman alphabet.
When more precision is required (typically not in running text), the soft sign, miakyi znak (Ь ь), can be explicitly represented by an apostrophe and the Ukrainian apostrophe, apostrof (’), by a double apostrophe (closing quotation marks). This is a wiki-modification based on other romanization systems, and not part of the standard.
Ukrainian distinguishes hard (unpalatalized or plain) and soft (palatalized) consonants (both phonetically and orthographically). Soft consonants, most of which are denoted by a superscript ʲ , are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate , like the articulation of the y sound in yes .