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  Romanization of Ukrainian - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic.
Romanization may be employed to represent Ukrainian text or pronunciation for non-Ukrainian readers, on computer systems that cannot reproduce Cyrillic characters, or for typists who are not familiar with the Ukrainian keyboard layout.
The character sequences зг, кг, сг, тс, and цг may be romanized as z∙h, k∙h, s∙h, t∙s, and ts∙h to differentiate them from the digraphs zh, kh, sh, ts, and the letter sequence tsh, which are used to render the characters ж, х, ш, ц, and the letter sequence тш.
encyclopedia.quickseek.com /index.php/Romanization_of_Ukrainian   (1229 words)

  
  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ukrainian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayins'ka mova, [ukraˈjinʲsʲka ˈmɔʋa]) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages.
Ukrainian traces its roots through the mid-fourteenth century as one of the state languages of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, back to the early written evidences of tenth-century Kievan Rus'.
Ukrainian culture and language flourished in the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century, when Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Ukrainian_language   (7035 words)

  
 Romanization - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
If the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-one mapping of characters in the source language into the target script, with less emphasis on how the result sounds when pronounced according to the reader's language.
Such romanizations follow the principle of phonological transcription and attempt to render the significant sounds (phonemes) of the original as faithfully as possible in the target language.
Romanization of Chinese, in particular, has proved a very difficult problem, although the issue is further complicated by political considerations.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Romanize   (1717 words)

  
 Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayins'ka mova, [ukraˈjinʲsʲka ˈmɔʋa]) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages.
The Ukrainian language was formed by mixing and convergence of tribal dialects, mostly due to an intensive migration of the population within the territory of today's Ukraine in later historical periods.
Ukrainian culture and language flourished in the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century, when Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/uk/ukrainian_language.html   (7071 words)

  
 Romanization information - Search.com
If the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-one mapping of characters in the source language into the target script, with less emphasis on how the result sounds when pronounced according to the reader's language.
Such romanizations follow the principle of phonological transcription and attempt to render the significant sounds (phonemes) of the original as faithfully as possible in the target language.
Romanization of Chinese, in particular, has proved a very difficult problem, although the issue is further complicated by political considerations.
www.search.com /reference/Romanization   (2173 words)

  
 Ukrainian Language Encyclopedia Article @ Confines.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ukrainian and Polish language do share a lot of common or similar words, but so do all Slavic languages, since many words are carried over from the extinct Proto-Slavic language, the common ancestor of the modern ones.
Ukrainian was considered to be of secondary importance, and an excessive attachment to it was considered a sign of nationalism and so "politically incorrect".
Ukrainian is also spoken by a large émigré population, particularly in Canada (see Canadian Ukrainian), United States and several countries of South America like Argentina and Brazil.
www.confines.org /encyclopedia/Ukrainian_language   (7065 words)

  
 Ukrainian language, alphabet and pronunciation
Ukrainian is an Eastern Slavonic language closely related to Russian and Belarusian.
Ukrainian religious material, including translations of the Bible, was written in Old Slavonic, the language used by missionaries to spread Christianity to the Slavic peoples.
During the Soviet era, Russian was the main language of education and employment and Ukrainian was sidelined.
www.omniglot.com /writing/ukrainian.htm   (438 words)

  
 Romanization of Ukrainian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic.
Romanization may be employed to represent Ukrainian text or pronunciation for non-Ukrainian readers, on computer systems that cannot reproduce Cyrillic characters, or for typists who are not familiar with the Ukrainian keyboard layout.
Romanization intended for readers of other languages is usually transcribed phonetically into the familiar orthography.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian   (1278 words)

  
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The Ukrainian orientation argues that Rusyns are a branch of the Ukrainian nationality and that a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn nationality cannot and should not exist.
As far as transliteration is concerned there is only one difference from the transliteration of Ukrainian: the Vojvodinian Rusyn "[letter not displayed]" should be transliterated as "i", and not as "y", as it is in the case of the Ukrainian language.
The Ukrainians tend to view the group as a part of the Ukrainian ethnos.
www.carpatho-rusyn.org /voj.htm   (2126 words)

  
 Ukrainian Preteens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ukrainian Holocaust - Ukrainian Holocaust is a term used by some (mostly Ukrainian) historians to refer to the Holodomor, a 1932–33 famine and a major national catastrophe in Ukraine.
Russian historians tend to criticize this Ukrainian view for what they claim to be an attempt to appropriate the larger-scale tragedy of collectivization in the USSR as their own national terror-famine, thus exploiting it for political purposes.
In addition, Ukrainian independence and organization for a population of Scandinavians, known as reflected in an independent Ukraine and remains a biography of contemporary style, delivers an engaging and drank, where to the separatist Crimean region by the history and international adoption on an interest in post-soviet Ukraine.
www.yunist.com /ukrainianpreteens.html   (665 words)

  
 Ukrainian Consulate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Plarr, torn between his instinctive feeling for the revolutionaries -- one of whom is an old friend -- ukrainian consulate and his ambiguous relationship with Fortnum, whose wife he has taken as a lover, becomes involved in a tragicomedy that leads inexorably to a meaningless death.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) - The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (;) is an autonomous church of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine, under the Patriarch of Moscow.
Romanization of Ukrainian - Romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian denotes a system for representing the Ukrainian language in Latin letters.
www.yunist.com /ukrainianconsulate.html   (532 words)

  
 UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems
Thus active participation and input of the potential users of the new romanization systems are assured.
Specifically, the group considers whether the romanization system is based on sound scientific principles, the system's degree of reversibility, and the extent of its implementation on cartographic products (maps and charts) by the proposing country.
Finally, the new system is referred to the next U.N. Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in form of a resolution which, in turn, is voted by the Conference.
www.eki.ee /wgrs   (859 words)

  
 Letter database: languages, character sets, names etc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But if you think that some important aspect is missing or wrong, please don't hesitate to mail your comments to Indrek Hein, kiisu@eki.ee.
There are many existing romanisation (transliteration and transcription) systems in use for both roman and non-roman scripts.
The list is incomplete and some of the forementioned languages are included in the database as they nevertheless have a number of 'important' characters or other possible transcription systems.
www.eki.ee /letter/languages/latin.html   (497 words)

  
 Ukrainian Romanization System
The Ukrainian System of Romanization as a Component of the Ukrainian Orthography
Our terminological group proposes its own conception of the Ukrainian system of romanization, which serves as a parallel alphabet and a mirror display of the Cyrillic spelling.
Therefore we are going to combat against any cringe before "senior languages" and offer our own variant of the Ukrainian system of romanization, which has a precise conception.
www.geocities.com /ukrterm/eng/latynka_rejestr_eng.htm   (172 words)

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