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The Ukrainian alphabet (Ukrainian: абе́тка, áзбука or алфа́ві́т, romanized: abetka, azbuka or alfavit) is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine. It is one of several national variations of the Cyrillic script.
The Ukrainian Latin alphabet [a] is the form of the Latin script used for writing, transliteration, and retransliteration of Ukrainian. The Latin alphabet has been proposed or imposed several times in the history in Ukraine , but it has never replaced the dominant Cyrillic Ukrainian alphabet .
A unified Ukrainian alphabet (the Skrypnykivka, after Mykola Skrypnyk) was officially established at a 1927 international Orthographic Conference in Kharkiv, during the period of Ukrainization in Soviet Ukraine. But the policy was reversed in the 1930s, and the Soviet Ukrainian orthography diverged from that used by the diaspora.
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 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 ...
if V is the Common Slavic *e, then the vowel in Ukrainian mutated to /a/, e.g., Common Slavic *žitĭje became Ukrainian /ʒɪˈtʲːa/ (життя́) if V is Common Slavic *ĭ, then the combination became /ɛj/, e.g., genitive plural in Common Slavic *myšĭjĭ became Ukrainian /mɪˈʃɛj/ (мише́й)
Kha, from Elisabeth Boehm's alphabet book Kha , Khe , Xe or Ha (Х х; italics: Х х ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . It looks the same as the Latin letter X (X x X x ), in both uppercase and lowercase, both roman and italic forms, and was derived from the Greek letter Chi , which also bears a resemblance to both the Latin X and Kha.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Ukrainian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Ukrainian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.