Question on Ukrainian v/w

[anna dvigubski]

dear paul,

as far as i know, ukrainian has W only at ends of words or before  
consonants, - in other words, in those places where russian V would  
become unvoiced F. so in your example VOVK, you would get both kinds:  
the first is regular V and the second - W because it is in an unvoiced  
position. by the way a person pronounces the final V (most often in  
masculine past tense verbs, such as "skazav") you can tell whether  
someone speaks ukrainian with a russian accent: a russian native  
speaker might say skazaF, while the correct ukrainian pronunciation  
requires skazaW.

sincerely,
anna




Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:

> Alex wrote:
>
>> UNICOD (UTF-8)
>>
>> Dear Paul, Ukrainian "V" is the same as Russian. But some countrymen
>> may mix "HV" with "F". I know that you can read cyrillic. ...
>
> Well, so far you're the first respondent to say this.
>
> I've had several messages, both public and private, indicating that
> Ukrainian definitely does have a [w]. There seems to be some
> uncertainty about whether it occurs /everywhere/ or whether Ukrainian
> has [v] in some contexts. But I /am/ hearing for example that "сказаф"
> or even "сказав" for "сказаў" (please forgive my use of a Belarusian
> letter for clarity) is a Russian accent, not a natural Ukrainian
> pronunciation.
>
> I'm still hoping someone will clarify both the geographic and
> phonological contexts in which [v] occurs.
>
> I was already aware of the хв/ф confusion; that wasn't my question.
>
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