It is easy to see that although represented by one letter, each of these sounds in fact combines two sounds pronounced fast one after the other. Sounds ya, yu, ye have a similar softening effect on the consonant that precedes them. You can listen to pairs of hard and soft consonants: Please review the following transliteration table to get an idea about Ukrainian letters andġ) You've seen that the English y in transliterated words (these are usually geographic and people's names) may in fact represent two quite different sounds: the one is similar to the vowel y in "myth," and the other to the consonant y in "yolk." How can you know when it's the one and when the other? Just like in English: when y is the first letter of a word or accompanies another vowel, either before or after it, it's a consonant like in "yolk," "yacht," "you," or "yield," and when y is surrounded by consonants, it is a vowel like in "myth."Ģ) The soft sign, unlike all other letters, does not represent an independent sound but rather affects the consonant before it, softens it. Other Ukrainian letters look quite different. In Ukrainian represents a sound similar to the English "v". Pronounced differently than in English and may in fact resemble other English sounds. Some of its letters look exactly like those of the Latin alphabet used in English however, most of these are Ukrainian has a Cyrillic alphabet almost identical to some other Slavonic languages (Russian, Bulgarian). Lesson Two: Letters and Sounds Lesson Two: Letters and Sounds
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