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The alphabet changed to keep pace with changes in language, as regional dialects developed into the modern Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian languages. Spoken Ukrainian has an unbroken history, but the literary language has suffered from two major historical fractures.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 December 2024. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
The Belarusian alphabet displays the following features: He or Ge (Г г) represents a voiced velar fricative or voiced velar plosive of /ɣ/ or /ɡ/ Yo (Ё ё) represents /jo/, just like in Russian. I (І і), also known as the dotted I or decimal I, resembles the Latin letter I. Unlike Russian and Ukrainian, "И" is not used.
The letter ґ was removed from the alphabet, and Ukrainian scientific terminology was revised and harmonized with Russian-Ukrainian dictionaries (the Institute of Ukrainian Scientific Language was abolished in 1930). This version of the spelling was approved by the resolution of the People's Commissar of Education of the USSR of 5 September 1933.
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I Used in Belarusian, Kazakh, Khakas, Komi, Rusyn, and Ukrainian. Replaces И in those alphabets. Known as "Dotted I" or "Decimal I" ("i desyaterichnoe"). 0407: Ї: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI 0406 0308: 0457: ї: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI 0456 0308: Used in Church Slavonic, Rusyn, and Ukrainian.
The dotted i (І і; italics: І і), also called Ukrainian I, decimal i (и десятеричное, after its former numeric value) or soft-dotted i, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel /i/ , like the pronunciation of i in English "mach i ne".
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.