So did the "H" disappear in Ukrainian over the last 10 years?

[Freedom1]

OK, I remember " A Be Ve He Ge E ye....etc". Yet in the Hippocrene Standard, there is no "Ge", the "He" is "ge".

20 years ago that was the Russian alphabet. Is it just the Hippocrene dictionary or was there a real change in the language eliminating the "ge" and pronouncing "he" as "ge".

Not that my opinion matters, but I always thought that having that soft sounding "H" was one of the betterments of the Ukrainian language over Russian.

Oh please Ukrainian citizens, tell me it "aint" so!

[StasUA]

Hi.

The two different G letters are now both used in Ukrainian language. I believe the second, strong G, which pronounces identically to the russian G was introduced around 10 years ago. Also it is not widely used, only a very limited number of specific words uses the strong G. While the soft one, is the one that is used in almost all of the language.

Cheers.
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