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
TypeAlphabet
Spoken languagesUkrainian
Time periodLate 18th century to the present
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
Sister systemsUkrainian Latin
Pannonian Rusyn
Carpathian Rusyn alphabets
Russian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Unicode rangeSubset of Cyrillic (U+0400 ... U+04F0)
ISO 15924Cyrl
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

References

  1. Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.


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