Ukrainian alphabet
33-letter Cyrillic alphabet used to write Ukrainian
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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Script type | |
Time period | Late 18th century to the present |
Languages | Ukrainian |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
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Sister systems | Ukrainian Latin Pannonian Rusyn Carpathian Rusyn alphabets Russian Belarusian Bulgarian |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cyrl (220), Cyrillic |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cyrillic |
Subset of Cyrillic (U+0400 ... U+04F0) | |
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
change- ↑ Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.