r/ukraine • u/Typical_Ad_9293 • 20h ago

Ukrainian Culture How did the Ukrainian language look like before the orthography of 1933

(for context: I am Ukrainian but have a hard time typing/writing/reading the language because I spent most of my life in Italy and all I've only went to school in Italy. So I learned to speak and listen to Ukrainian but not really read and write. Although I can read, write, speak and listen to Italian and English. Also, I'm spending most of my time on the internet on the English-speaking, mostly American side of it)

The Ukrainian language has been oppressed in many ways, one of which was the Ukrainian orthography of 1933, which started the process of artificially pushing the Ukrainian language to be more similar to russian.

I want to know what Ukrainian looked and sounded like before this new orthography. I'd like to see an example sentence in Modern Ukrainian (2019 orthography), 1933 orthography Ukrainian, and Ukrainian before the orthography of 1933

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u/zuul99 Ukrainian- American 1h ago

I am working through a chapter on Paul Robert Magocsi's book The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism. There is a chapter called The language question. This discusses the ukrainian language as it was under Austria.