Yaryzhka or Orthography of Slobozhanshchyna is the name of the pre-revolutionary orthography used to write and print works in the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire. Yaryzhka included all the le
Front page of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky's Kaidash's Family, published in 1887 in Kyiv; unlike the printed text, which is composed in yaryzhka according to publication rules of the Russian Empire, the author's signature addressed to Austrian subject Ivan Franko is written using the standard Ukrainian orthography
The dotted і, also called decimal i or soft-dotted i, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel, like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in English "machine". It
In early Russian typewriters such as the one above, there was no key for the digit 1, so the dotted І was used instead. Following the Russian alphabet reform of 1918, a 1 key was added.