The Ukrainian alphabet consists of 33 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 language. The following is a list of the Ukrainian letters, their transliterations, and selections of English words with comparable sounds.

• LETTER

• -transliterated: a, pronounced as a in car
• -transliterated: b, pronounced as b in boy
• -transliterated : v, pronounced as v in vast
• -transliterated : h, pronounced as h in horn
• -transliterated : g, pronounced as g in get
• -transliterated : d, pronounced as d in day
• -transliterated : e, pronounced as e in jet
• -transliterated : ye, pronounced as ye in (ye)t
• -transliterated : zh, pronounced as zh in re(g)ime
• -transliterated : z, pronounced as z in zone
• -transliterated : y, pronounced as i in did
• -transliterated : i, pronounced as ee in feed
• -transliterated : yi, pronounced as yea in (yea)r
• -transliterated : y', pronounced as y in (y)oung
• -transliterated : k, pronounced as k in kelp
• -transliterated : l, pronounced as l in love
• -transliterated : m, pronounced as m in may
• -transliterated : n, pronounced as n in not
• -transliterated : o, pronounced as o in more
• -transliterated : p, pronounced as p in pin
• -transliterated : r, pronounced as r in ran
• -transliterated : s, pronounced as s in sun
• -transliterated : t, pronounced as t in ten
• -transliterated : u, pronounced as u in put
• -transliterated : f, pronounced as f in fun
• -transliterated : kh, pronounced as kh in khan
• -transliterated : ts, pronounced as ts in ne(ts)
• -transliterated : ch, pronounced as ch in check
• -transliterated : sh, pronounced as sh in shop
• -transliterated : shch, pronounced sh + very short ch
• -transliterated : yu, pronounced as you
• -transliterated : ya, pronounced as ya in (ya)rd
• -transliterated : ' (This letter by itself does not have a sound. It is called "myakyy' znak"-soft sign). Its function is to make the pronunciation of preceding consonants such as very soft.

This page was compiled by Zenon Iwasykiw.