Ukrainian orthography of 2019
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The Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Ukrainian: Український правопис 2019 року, romanized: Ukrainskyi pravopys 2019 roku) is the current version of Ukrainian orthography, prepared by the Ukrainian National Orthography Commission. On 22 May 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a new version of the orthography,[1][2][3] and on 30 May 2019, this document came into force.[3]
The composition of the Ukrainian National Commission, which prepared the draft orthography, was approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 17 June 2015.
A transitional phase is currently underway to implement the new version. During this stage, each institution decides independently on the use of the new version.[4] But the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment has been set five years to implement the new standards in external independent evaluation tests.[5]
The new edition brought back to use some features of the Ukrainian orthography of 1928 (the so-called Orthography of Kharkiv), which were part of the Ukrainian orthographic tradition thrown out by the Ukrainian orthography of 1933, which began the Russification of the Ukrainian orthography tradition. At the same time, the commission was guided by the understanding that the language practice of Ukrainians in the second half of the XX – beginning of the XXI century has already become part of the Ukrainian orthography tradition.[6]