Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet
| Ukrainian alphabet |
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|---|---|
| Type | |
| Languages | Ukrainian |
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Time period
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Late 18th century to the present |
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Parent systems
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Cyrillic script
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Sister systems
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Ukrainian Latin Pannonian Rusyn Carpatho-Rusyn Russian Belarusian |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Cyrl, 220 |
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Unicode alias
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Cyrillic |
| Subset of Cyrillic (U+0400 … U+04F0) | |
The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic script.
In Ukrainian, it is called українська абетка (IPA: [ukrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ɐˈbɛtkɐ]; tr. Ukrayins’ka abetka), from the initial letters а (tr. a) and б (tr. b); алфавіт (tr. alfavit); or, archaically, азбука (tr. azbuka), from the acrophonic early Cyrillic letter names азъ (tr. az) and буки (tr. buki).
Ukrainian text is sometimes romanised: written in the Latin alphabet, for non-Cyrillic readers or transcription systems. See romanisation of Ukrainian for details of specific romanisation systems. There have also been several historical proposals for a native Latin alphabet for Ukrainian, but none have caught on.
Before the publication of the official Ukrainian Orthography (1990), the alphabetical order ended with ю, я, ь.
The alphabet comprises thirty-three letters, representing thirty-eight phonemes (meaningful units of sound) and an additional sign: the apostrophe. Ukrainian orthography (the rules of writing) 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.
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