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The alphabet was adapted to the local spoken Old East Slavic language, leading to the development of indigenous East Slavic literary language alongside the liturgical use of Church Slavonic. The alphabet changed to keep pace with changes in language, as regional dialects developed into the modern Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian languages ...
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)
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.
Ukrainian distinguishes hard (unpalatalized or plain) and soft (palatalized) consonants (both phonetically and orthographically). Soft consonants, most of which are denoted by a superscript ʲ , are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate , like the articulation of the y sound in yes .
In the Serbian Latin alphabet, the sound is represented by "I/i". In Macedonian, и is the eleventh letter of the alphabet and represents the sound /i/. It is transliterated from Russian as i or from Ukrainian as y or i , depending on the romanization system. (See romanization of Russian and romanization of Ukrainian for more details.)
ChebanykGroteskCond2004 font by Vasyl Chebanyk, Ukrainian language graphics project, Ruthenia. The art of Ukrainian calligraphy dates back to the times of the Trypil culture, the Scythians and Sarmatians, the Cossack period and the George Narbut alphabet, and was replaced by the unified alphabet of the Soviet era.
In Ukrainian and Rusyn, Є/є represents the sound combination /je/ or the vowel sound /e/ after a palatalized consonant. It is the 8th letter of Ukrainian alphabet (in 1935-1992 it was the 7th, as Ґ was banned).
Soviet type of Ukrainian Manual Alphabet (UMA), used prior to 2003. Differs from the UMA used in independent Ukraine in that it lacks Ґ The modern Ukrainian dactylic alphabet has 33 dactylic characters, which is the same number as the letters in the Ukrainian alphabet.