History and Information on Ukraine - Section 17

The Ukrainian alphabet consists of 33 sounds letters. Some of the sounds represented by these letters are comparable to sounds in English. Others are quite unique and as such should be mastered by the student of the Ukrainian following is a language. The list of the Ukrainian Letters, their Transliterations, and English words with comparable sounds.
Ukrainian	Transliteration	Pronunciation
	a	a in car
	b	b in boy
	v	v in vast
	h	h in horn
	g	g in get
	d	d in day
	e	e in jet
	ye	ye in yet
	zh	zh in regime
	z	z in zone
	y	i in did
	i	ee in feed
	yi	yea in year
	y'	y in young
	k	k in kelp
	l	l in love
	m	m in may
	n	n in not
	o	o in more
	p	p in pin
	r	r in ran
	s	s in sun
	t	t in ten
	u	u in put
	f	f in fun
	kh	kh in khan
	ts	ts in nets
	ch	ch in check
	sh	sh in shop
	shch	sh + very short ch
	yu	you
	ya	ya in yard
	' This letter by itself does not have a sound. It is called myakyy' znak - soft sign.	Its function is to make the pronunciation very soft of the preceding consonants.

This page was compiled from the Zenon Iwasykiw original at TRAVEL LANGUAGES

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