A mysterious letter Ґ in the Ukrainian language
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Привіт-привіт! In this Ukrainian video lesson, we will learn about a mysterious letter Ґ in Ukrainian.
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I love your work, Inna! Very important in these times! I´m brazilian and I love learning about Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian language! ruZZia will NEVER be able to erase this beautiful people and their culture!
I want to learn both I am east Ukrainian heritage
I've been using a Ukrainian app for a while. I've been wondering about this letter for a while. Thank you for teaching.
I'm curious what app that is. Maybe it could be useful for me.
I'm learning Ukrainian and thanks to your videos lots of things are becoming clearer. Thank you Inna!
I too am learning ukranian. I started last year to show my support and find me a very good ukrainian wife
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the upload!
Thanks! I have been using your channel to learn some Ukrainian. Thank you! 😁
Hello Inna , I just received my Ukrainian alphabet book today. I have had a quick look and I am very happy with it. Top things off you just explained something that was troubling me , I was organising a dual language keyboard cover and I noticed that letter was missing. So you solved the mystery for me thanks very much Inna , regards Wally
If you have a physical keyboard where you add keycap stickers, this letter is typically mapped to the key that has `\ |` printed on it in the US QWERTY layout. It's usually put next to the main `Enter` key or near the left `Shift`.
But there are just physical marks. You may have to set up a proper Ukrainian keyboard layout depending on your operating system.
With mobile phones, it's usually easier, because the keyboards are rendered on-screen and you'll see where the letters are.
@@webknjaz Thanks for the info.
Так приємно це чути. Мене звати Ґері.
Me too. I used to be called Harry!
Very interesting ! Thanks Inna for sharing your language with us
Thank you for the explanation!❤
Дякую Вам за працю та цікаве відео.
Дуже дякую 🌹🌷🌺
Продовжуйте, всього найліпшого вам
Слава Україні
We in the diaspora have always used the letter "Ґ" because everyone was trying to preserve the language. I went to Ukrainian school on Saturdays when I was a child.
thanks for that explanation Inna, i was wondering why this letter hardly shows up when learning the Ukranian language.
Thank you Inna! I always learn something from you.
Thank you..👍
You are wonderful! I hope you do well Miss Inna!!
Thanks
Great video!
Thank you for making a lesson about this. I had never heard about that. In fact i have been confused about it.
I learned Ukrainian as a child in Canada. I wish I remembered if that letter was taught to me. I am glad to learn it now as i study Ukrainian again .
you are wonderful. I love all your videos, thank you.
I teach English to Ukrainian students for the ENGin organization and I'm trying to learn Ukrainian in turn. The alphabet drives me crazy! If I could only read it better I know I'd learn Ukrainian a lot faster. So your letter-by-letter videos are helpful -- thank you. I'm going to buy your letter textbook as well because I need all the help I can get. Keep up the good work!
When I watch the news (usually watch Denys Davydov) about the war, I noticed that some of the cities that have an 'h' in English translation he pronounces with a 'g' sound in Ukrainian. These are typically cities shown on the map with '-град' at the end of the name. Your video explains this much better now. Thank you!
I've been studying Ukrainian using Duolingo and have been wondering for a while when this letter would be introduced. I'm up to Unit 18 and no sign of it! I will be inquiring as to the omission. Thanks for the history and clarification!
I've finished Duolingo's Ukrainian lessons (far too little, to be honest) and they never introduce it.
Not surprising, @@DMLand - how do you study Ukrainian after Duolingo?
@@marciatucker5171Embarrassingly, I mostly just practice using Duolingo … and watching Inna, of course!
@@marciatucker5171 consider Qlango. Starting from scratch there, you will reinforce what you know, learn new vocabulary, and learn to spell Ukrainian words. The language is richer in each lesson, and the example sentences more useful. Plus you can adjust settings so lesson approaches suit your learning style.
This is very fascinating case of language development happening before our eyes, and what's remarkable is that it shows a return of a sound which was thought to be extinct in Ukrainian! 🤩
Thank you again. Well explained and i really like the historical backround.
Слава Україні 🥹💙💛
How are you?
Dobryy den 🇺🇦🇬🇧
Well, my mother's last name (of Ukrainian origin) starts with a G and is pronounced G and not H, so I'm glad to hear it's made a comeback! I will send her this video as we were guessing that this family name may have come from elsewhere (like Turkey) then been transliterated into Ukrainian before being transliterated into English. My ancestor emigrated around 1900, so it's possible that we pronounce the name with G/ґ and anyone with this name remaining in Ukraine would pronounce it with H/г. Super interesting video!
на твої відео може бути величезна підписка, ти дуже добре вчиш українську, молода леді
Thank you for answering all the questions I had about this letter! My Lenovo laptop keyboard does not support it, even though Microsoft's Ukrainian font has a key defined for it. It works well on my iPad, however. Thank you for continuing to make fresh and interesting videos for us!
It's above the `Enter` key. The US QWERTY layout has `| \` printed on it. If you add a proper Ukrainian keyboard layout in your operating system, it will work, regardless of what your keycap has printed on it. You just have to find the right key and software configuration.
install extanded layout and Right Alt+Г will give Ґ
@@webknjaz Дякую! У мені є "ґ" зараз!
@@besconst Дуже Дякую! Ваші вказівки були успішними. У мені є "ґ" зараз! I never would have thought of Right Alt! 💛💙
Would be interesting if you linguists gave the oxford gang some advice on the use of accents with letters when it comes to pronunciation. I'm sure you guys could make English easier.
Thank you for these videos! I’m trying to learn some Ukrainian so I can understand and appreciate my crush from university better. Hopefully it works out, wish me luck!🤞
Impressive
My family left Ukraine before WW1 and have always used ґ (in word such as in ґудзик). Ukrainian diaspora who preserved the pre Soviet version of Ukrainian may be a great source of information for restoration of the language as it was before Russification.
дякую for these videos, Inna! I am learning Ukrainian via Duolingo (which has far too little of your lovely language), and had a discussion with my son about the fact that they always transliterate "hamburger" as «гамбургер». Will linguists change that to «гамбурґер»? Also, I noticed the word «ґвалт» in your list: I wonder if it is related to the Yiddish exclamation "Oy gevalt," which means "Oh, violence!" but I suppose could mean "Oh, (such a) ruckus!"
Some of the words are clearly of German or Yiddish origin. Even as a non-native speaker of German I can recognize (words 3-6) "Grund, Gang, Gattung, Gewalt".
I use the ґ for our German names since I was in Ukraine 25 years ago. The Ukrainian people often have been astonished about it. They didn't write the names like Ґраф or Єґер in the right way
As a native Bulgarian I can confirm that we have the same sounding letter which also looks 90% the same.
Greetings to all my brothers and sisters from Ukraine!
Слава Україні!
Ukrainian has the Ґ-Г-Х triple, they just map differently to the sounds, than in other languages. Historically, it existed in the proto-Slavic language, but as the languages of different ethnicities started branching out into distinct ones, the sounds changed. And the Ukrainians shifted to saying it in a softer manner - we got Г, moving away from Ґ (talking about the sounds, not the letters, as this one didn't yet exist graphically). Many Cyrillic letters use the older Г to mark this same sound, but in Ukrainian, it corresponds to something in between Ґ and Х. Some Slavic languages that use Latin-based alphabets also have a similar trio of letters. For example, in Czech, they are G-H-CH (the last one is a digraph) - these correspond to the Ukrainian Ґ-Г-Х exactly, but not necessarily to other languages, only because Czechs have gone a similar path of moving to Г (as opposed to the proto-Slavic tradition of saying Ґ). For example, Polish has the same 3 letters as Czech but they correspond to 2 sounds (Ґ-Х-Х), with Г nowhere to be found.
So the letter Ґ is something unique to Ukrainian, but ironically, it's main purpose is to represent a sound that is not typical for Ukrainian phonetics, just to be able to represent foreign loaned words closer to what they sound like in their original languages.
My point is that the Bulgarian Г is likely 100% equivalent of the Ukrainian Ґ in the terms of the sound it represents. But there's probably nothing equivalent to the Ukrainian Г, which is much softer-sounding.
The varying use of Г was a mystery to me in the beginning of the war, because some Ukrainians said Hostomel and some Gostomel. Anna from Ukraine funnily and on purpose pronounces Prihozin and Bilhorod. Not much use for G in Ukrainian.
This is because in non-Ukrainian Slavic languages, Г corresponds to the same sound as the Ukrainian Ґ. So people knowing other alphabets misinterpret how to read it, especially the Soviet-educated ones.
I feel like having ґ would certainly diversify linguistic pronunciations!
Now that I know that ruzzians tried to erase the letter ґ as a part of their attempt to cancel the wonderful Ukrainian culture and people I officially changed my name into Ґґґґґ Ґґґґґґ. Seriously speaking thanks for your video which I find always interesting. Слава Україні!
Defend it! Give us t-shirts with Ґ
Even now, how certain words are translated can really depend how well the translation service is. Bing seems to be a lot better at including ґ than Google Translate. I certainly know the differences between ґ and г, but I still think it is inconsistent, since it is still is common for г to be used as g instead of ґ. But I think one reason why many people still use г for g even though it is a h and hence they don't really use ґ, at least in English, anyway, I don't know about others, is that both ґ and г came from the Greek gamma. We use a lot Greek-derived words, especially in science and math. In Ancient Greek, gamma was a voiced velar plosive [g], just like in the word "get". A lot ot words came from Ancient Greek. As time went on, it changed. Today, in modern Greek it is either a voiced velar fricative (think like a Dutch g), or if it is before front vowels (e or i), it becomes a voiced palatal fricative (think like the y in the Spanish word "sayo"). Now as far as I know of, I don't know of any Ukrainian place names that have ґ in there. What is called Ghe with upturn (i.e. the tip of the gamma is pointing up instead of down, at least in certain fonts) you don't really see it in Ukrainian, although I would imagine that it was probably much more common.
Thank you brave Ukrainian defender of European freedom
And for what purpose you are writing *this?
@@goansichishig Someone said thank you and you don't understand? You felt compelled to question the purpose of saying thank you?
@@beachbum77979 wait, no. I was answering another one here. But as I see, their comment got deleted, or they deleted it themself.
Мова українська, мова солов'їна.
Одне з відео Ганни Юрченко було про Ґава. Ганна Юрченко авторка "смачно". Дуже хороша книга. Допомагає пізнати українську мову та культуру. One of Hanna Yurchenko's videos was about Gavа. Hanna Yurchenko is the author of "Smachno". A very good book. Helps to learn the Ukrainian language and culture.
Will this letter appear on the Ukrainian Keyboard on my smartphone phone?
I am English, so have the keyboard set to English, (Romanic Alphabet), on my smartphone,
But I am also interested in learning the Ukrainian language,
I have a world tab in the bottom left hand corner, (🌐), so when I tap on it, the keyboard changes to letters in the Ukrainian alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet,
There is only the letter “г”, but not the letter that you mentioned, which sounds like the English letter “g”,
🤔
Well, it depends on which cyryllic exactly you switched. In Google keyboard it's quite simple. You just need add Ukrainian, and you will have letter "ґ" in the lower right corner of the keyboard.
So, How were the names like Gucci, Gaga, were said before 1990? Were they said like Hucci, Haha?
I am coming from English. How do i know when to read a word with which sound? The two are written the same but translations i can dig up show a difference. I am going crazy.
I heard Ukrainian speaking Гостомель as Gostomel and others speaking it Hostomel. Which is right?!
Джаґа джаґа ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ бережіть себе 🇵🇷🇺🇦 Свободу Керчі, pal carajo el puente
I'd always just thought that the "g" sound disappeared from Ukrainian pronunciation and was replaced by "h".
Compared to the proto-Slavic, mostly yes. The majority of the words are loaned. So it does exist in speech and writing, just not in the words of Ukrainian origin.
Is it related to the ancient Greek "gamma?"
Yes, both Г and Ґ are from Greek Г.
There is a long way to go in restoring г to normal usage and acceptance.
5:03 Difference between Г, Ґ ? Isn't it obvious?
Щось цікаве: У Дуолінґі, вони не говорют про букву 《Ґ》. Чому? Я хочу знати.
Инно, ще один цікавий урок! Ви ґав не ловите! Дякую!
How would you not have a G. The other letter is a voiced H.
Nice, ґрунт is German. Ґ is available on Gboard, not on Samsung keyboard.
"Grund, Gang, Gattung, Gewalt"... (words 3-6) 🙂
I am in love with you and i cry because i never gonna have you.i have so much love and kindness to give but you are not here and that make my every day painful.come to live with me ina i give you everything and if you don't love me you can go,i will stay with the memory
always standing with Ukrainian people , the brightness will take darkness down finally! keep it up
Гарний лист. Для людей вищого суспільства.
ґрати = bars 🤔
Like candy bars? Or places where I can have a beer?
No, ґрати is jail bars (or just jail, sometimes). In the context of candies (like chocolate bars), the word is батончик.
Places where you can have beer can be transliterated as is - бар. Although, there's many other related words, like шинок/пивниця (but, the tall table with a barperson behind inside the establishment, can still be referred to as бар).
Sometimes, people use the word бар to refer to the furniture pieces with shelves where they store alcohol, at home.
@@webknjaz Thank you 😊
Sorry if I mention "that other" language, but isn't it funny, to say the least, that they spell some foreign words with the letter Г, as in Ukrainian, but they pronounce it as it is usually pronounced in "that" language, that is, as Ґ in Ukrainian? For instance, Гитлер, гамбургер, and the most ridiculous of all, гигиена.
Most of the Cyrillic alphabets pronounce their Г as the Ukrainian Ґ. The sound Ґ in the proto-Slavic language was dominant, as I understand. So most languages inherited it, while Ukrainian and Czech (and Slovak, probably) evolved from Ґ to Г. Later on, more words were getting borrowed from the other languages (Slavic, like Polish, or others like Hungarian), that themselves loaned some words from farther in the West. So when people wanted to preserve the "new" sound, they needed a way to spell it, hence the letter Ґ emerged. Languages evolve and exchange words, especially in places where many trade routes cross, historically.
Why don't you want to join thousands Ukrainian women in the army and fight for your country?
Because it's none of your business
Please stop misinforming about delivery times regarding your book Master Ukrainian Cases. I ordered weeks ago and am in Ukraine...not only a few days delivery time as you stated for delivery in Ukraine.
I had thought you were an honest person. Also, your online lessons are greedily expensive...but what can we expect different from a chicken who left Ukraine to make big money in UK. SHAME ON YOU.
I have read that there was a movement to restore the letter Yat. 《 ѣ 》It was lost in the 1918 reformation. I suspect that nothing came from the effort and most people felt that the letter's time was past.
be strong 😂🎉
Yeah, it also used to correspond to different sounds in different languages. My understanding is that it evolved into Ї in Ukrainian so it was confusing to keep two letters that effectively surve the same purpose.