Translation

[Zuko]

I found that by using the Google Translate translation facility, that I can adequately translate incoming letters and documents. When it comes to Russian,, I am able to change my computer keyboard to Russian but there is one problem that I run into that I cannot solve. On a letter that we received from the Archives, Transcarpathian Region there are several words that contain a letter which looks like an English capital I (phonetically speaking its pronounced "eye") and there is no I in the Russian alphabet. Can someone help me with this?

[Hannia]

Zuko, Happy New Year !!!

To date I have not seen anything that is adequate for translation from Cyrillic to Latin languages.

I assume that you are referring to the SOFT SIGN ???

The I in Ukrainian is И in Russian and pronounced as a long E in both.

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[Zuko]

Happy New Year to you too Hannia. Let me give you an example of one of the words that has that I. How would you interpret apxIBY?

[Serhii]

it is 'achivas ' in Ukrainian ( АРХІВИ ) you take Ukrainan text and translate it as if it were Russian

[SurnameIndex]

Oddly enough, sometimes "Ukrainian to Russian to English" translation via google translate is better than "Ukrainian to English" translation.