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The modern Ukrainian alphabet has 33 letters in total: 21 consonants, 1 semivowel, 10 vowels and 1 palatalization sign. Sometimes the apostrophe (') is also included, which has a phonetic meaning and is a mandatory sign in writing, but is not considered as a letter and is not included in the alphabet.
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 .
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)
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 ...
In various romanization systems of Ukrainian, ї is represented by Latin letters i or yi (word-initially), [1] [2] yi, [3] ji, or even ï. [4] It was formerly also used in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in the late 1700s and early 1800s, where it represented the sound /j/; in this capacity, it was introduced by Dositej Obradović but eventually ...
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In the Ukrainian alphabet, yery merged with [i] and was phased out in the second half of the 19th century. [2] According to the Ukrainian academician Hryhoriy Pivtorak , the letter was replaced with so called " Cyrillic i " и , which in Ukrainian represents the sound [ ɪ ] , which appeared by the merger of the earlier sounds [ɨ] and [i].
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.