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The alphabet comprises 33 letters, representing 40 phonemes.The apostrophe is also used in the spelling of some words, but is not considered a letter. Ukrainian orthography is based on the phonemic principle, with one letter generally corresponding to one phoneme.
Standard Ukrainian has been written with the Cyrillic script in a tradition going back to the introduction of Christianity and Old Church Slavonic to Kievan Rus'.Proposals for Latinization, if not imposed for outright political reasons, have always been politically charged and have never been generally accepted, although some proposals to create an official Latin alphabet for Ukrainian have ...
word-initially, where it became /ji/: Common Slavic *(j)ěsti became Ukrainian ї́сти /ˈjistɪ/ after the postalveolar sibilants where it became /a/: Common Slavic *ležěti became Ukrainian /lɛˈʒatɪ/ (лежа́ти) Common Slavic *i and *y are both reflected in Ukrainian as /ɪ/ [citation needed]
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.
In particular, in the current alphabet there are only two letters, which, according to prof. Ilarion Ohiienko, was not in the Cyril and Methodius alphabet — it is ґ, which is known since the end of the 16th century and became widespread in the 17th century and ї, which was first written instead of the former letter ѣ and in place of е in ...
This letter no longer exists in the modern Ukrainian alphabet. In modern Ukrainian spelling, the sound /jo/ — /ʲo/ is written as ьо after soft consonants in the middle of words (such as "нього", "him" after a preposition), and йо elsewhere (such as "його", "him"). The standard way to transcribe the foreign phonemes /ø/ or /œ ...
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE 0454: є: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE Used in Ukrainian, based on the Old Cyrillic yest. Considered a separate letter, placed after Е. 0405: Ѕ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZE 0455: ѕ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE Used in Macedonian and Montenegrin. Placed between З and И. 0406: І: CYRILLIC CAPITAL ...
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