The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic writing system.
In Ukrainian it is called Украї́нська абе́тка [ukrɑˈjinʲsʲkɑ ɑˈbɛtka], Ukrayins’ka abetka (from the initial letters a and be), алфаві́т, alfavit, or archaically азбу́ка, azbuka (from the acrophonic early Cyrillic letter names az and buki).
Ukrainian text is sometimes romanized...
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The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic writing system.
In Ukrainian it is called Украї́нська абе́тка [ukrɑˈjinʲsʲkɑ ɑˈbɛtka], Ukrayins’ka abetka (from the initial letters a and be), алфаві́т, alfavit, or archaically азбу́ка, azbuka (from the acrophonic early Cyrillic letter names az and buki).
Ukrainian text is sometimes romanized: written in the Latin alphabet, for non-Cyrillic readers or transcription systems. See romanization of Ukrainian for details of specific romanization systems. There have also been several historical proposals for a native Latin alphabet for Ukrainian, but none has caught on.
Note: before the publication of the official Ukrainian Orthography (1990), the alphabetical order ended with ю, я, ь.
The alphabet comprises thirty-three letters, representing thirty-eight phonemes (meaningful units of sound), and an additional sign—the apostrophe....
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