Ukrainian alphabet with Latin letters is convenient and easy communication tool using modern technologies. Transliteration of Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet into Ukrainian alphabet with Latin letters

For the last 150 years there were several attempts to write down Ukrainian language with Latin alphabet, including the attempts of adopting several laws that took place after declaration of independence of Ukraine in 1991. But there were not practical and popularize. The main reason is that they haven’t kept the spirit of the Ukrainian language, some Cyrillic letter handed combination of several Latin letters and the same distorted sound (phonetics) of Ukrainian language. But the social processes that take place in Ukraine since the declaration of its independence, i.e. significant emigration of workers that counted in the millions, and also problems with communication with the families that stayed in Ukraine using modern computers and technologies which are equipped only with Latin keyboard without access to Cyrillic alphabet, call for a great need for a creation of the opportunity to use Latin alphabet to record the Ukrainian language, which would retain its nature and was easy to use. This article presents a new version of Latin alphabet for the Ukrainian language. It does not replace the Cyrillic alphabet – but a parallel alternative for it and for all other versions of the alphabet that are used to record the Ukrainian language. This alphabet I called “Ukrainka” in honor of Ukrainian ladies who represent the majority of our emigrants. “Ukrainka” is completely unified alphabet, without any disadvantages from their predecessors. The main idea is in replacing one letter of Cyrillic alphabet to exactly one Latin letter – a transliteration of 1:1, does not break and does not introduce any new rules in Ukrainian spelling and phonetics, thus saving the Ukrainian language. There are other advantages: – no change in letters, regardless of their position in the word; – the word written in the Cyrillic “Ukrainka” always looks the same (the same set of letters) and there are no several options to write the same word; – saved Ukrainian language peculiarity to soften the consonants – saved not only a soft sign but also an apostrophe as a dividing option for separating from certain sounds in the middle of a word; – for the letters Ж, Ч, Ш, it’s used letters that mean the same in other languages with the Latin alphabet, namely Ž, Č, Š, and for Є, Ю, Я, Щ picked up letters graphically similar as the above – Ě, Ŭ, Ă, Ş. The main element of this article is a table of characters, the description justifying their introduction and showing how to use in computers, as well as examples of different tests transliteration.

Language learning as a factor in preserving the identity of Ukrainians in Poland

Language learning as a factor in preserving the identity of Ukrainians in Poland. One of the primary factors in fostering national identity is mastery of one’s native language, preservation of national memory, and nurturing of cultural traditions of one’s people. The Republic of Poland is a state that has one of the most significant Ukrainian minorities and has hospitably sheltered a vast mass of Ukrainian immigrants who left the Motherland due to Russian military aggression. The purpose of the article is to investigate the possibilities for preserving the identity of Ukrainians in 17 Poland through teaching children their native language. We have implemented the following tasks to achieve the goal: 1) We have determined the role of the national language in preserving identity. 2) We have clarified the historical and political prerequisites for a large Ukrainian community in Poland. 3) We have outlined the distinct types of educational opportunities for teaching children their native language in the Republic of Poland. 4) We have revealed the trends in the positioning of the Ukrainian language in Polish society. The article draws attention to different types of migration of Ukrainians. It reveals specific differences in intentions to nurture Ukrainian identity, satisfy one’s own national and cultural needs, and avoid assimilation. We have distinguished and characterized three types of educational institutions in the modern education school of the Republic of Poland where children are taught the Ukrainian language: Saturday schools or educational institutions under public organizations; Polish secondary schools, where Ukrainian is studied as a second foreign language; Educational institutions that conduct Ukrainian language training. We have revealed that the primary trend related to the positioning of the Ukrainian language in Polish society is the strengthening of its status in line with the educational policy of the European Union due to the increased interest of Poles in Ukraine, its language and culture.

Language policy in the program documents of Ukrainian political parties

This article presents the position of Ukrainian political parties on the issue of language policy during the period of independence. In particular, it was important to show the position taken by individual political parties towards the status of the Russian language, as well as the need to ensure the functioning of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of social life and in the territory of the entire state. A number of program documents were analyzed, in particular, the programs of political parties and the electoral programs of parties and electoral coalitions with which they competed in subsequent elections to the Verkhovna Rada. The focus was on those political parties that individually managed to overcome the electoral threshold at least once during the parliamentary elections held at the time of independence, or played a leading role in the electoral coalitions formed, as was the case, for example, with the People’s Union “Our Ukraine” which was the key political force in the pro-presidential electoral coalitions formed for the 2006 and 2007 elections. The position of the various political forces on the language issue was discussed after first dividing them into left-wing, centrist and center-left parties, as well as right-wing and center-right parties.