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The Ukrainian orthography (Ukrainian: Український правопис, romanized: Ukrainskyi pravopys) is the orthography for the Ukrainian language, a system of generally accepted rules that determine the ways of transmitting speech in writing. Until the last quarter of the 14th century Old East Slavic orthography was widespread. [1]
Ukrainian orthography is based on the phonemic principle, with one letter generally corresponding to one phoneme. The orthography also has cases in which semantic, historical, and morphological principles are applied. In the Ukrainian alphabet the "Ь" could also be the last letter in the alphabet (this was its official position from 1932 to 1990).
This provision was recognized as fair by a significant part of the participants in the public discussion of the new version of the Ukrainian orthography. In its work, the Ukrainian National Commission on Orthography was guided by the following principles: the need to preserve the Ukrainian orthography tradition; inclusion of new orthography ...
Ukrainian adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case. In Ukrainian, there exist a small number of adjectives, primarily possessives, which exist in the masculine in the so-called short form. This "short" form is a relic of the indefinite declension of adjectives in Common Slavic.
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".
The Ukrainian orthography of 1933 (Ukrainian: Український правопис 1933 року, romanized: Ukrainskyi pravopys 1933 roku) is the Ukrainian orthography, adopted in 1933 in Kharkiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. It began the process of artificial convergence of Ukrainian and Russian language traditions of orthography.
The apostrophe in the Ukrainian language is used before the letters я, ю, є, ї, when they denote the combination of the consonant / j / with the vowels / ɑ /, / u /, / ɛ /, / i / after б, п, в, м, ф, р and any solid consonant ending in a prefix or the first part of a compound word.
Pages in category "Ukrainian orthography" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...