Ukrainian alphabet
The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine. It is based on the Cyrillic alphabet. It has 33 letters.
Ukrainian alphabet | |
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Type | Alphabet |
Spoken languages | Ukrainian |
Time period | Late 18th century to the present |
Parent systems |
Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
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Sister systems | Ukrainian Latin Pannonian Rusyn Carpathian Rusyn alphabets Russian Belarusian Bulgarian |
Unicode range | Subset of Cyrillic (U+0400 ... U+04F0) |
ISO 15924 | Cyrl |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
The 33 letters are:
А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Ґ ґ, Д д, Е е, Є є, Ж ж, З з, И и, І і, Ї ї, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, ф Ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ь ь, Ю ю, Я я
Ukrainian Alphabet Media
Handwritten alphabet for Ukrainian, in one of the nineteenth-century orthographies. From Taras Shevchenko's Bukvar’ Yuzhnorusskii (South-Russian Primer), 1861.
References
- ↑ Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.