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
Type	Alphabet
Spoken languages	Ukrainian
Time period	Late 18th century to the present
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet (partly Glagolitic alphabet) Early Cyrillic alphabet Ukrainian alphabet
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

• Shevchenko Bukvar p12.jpg

  Handwritten alphabet for Ukrainian, in one of the nineteenth-century orthographies. From Taras Shevchenko's Bukvar’ Yuzhnorusskii (South-Russian Primer), 1861.

• Ucraniano-Alfabeto-Manuscrito.svg

  Ukrainian letters Г, Д, И, Й, М, Т, and Ц in printed versus handwritten form

• KB Ukrainian.svg

  Ukrainian keyboard layout based on Image:KB United Kingdom.svg