Orthography

Officially-approved norms for spelling and punctuation in standard Ukrainian are published under the title "Ukrains'kyi pravopys" (Ukrainian Orthographic Norms) and updated from time to time. The latest edition appeared in 2007 ("Naukova Dumka", Kyiv, 2007). Online version

Orthographic (spelling) dictionaries, listing words spelled according to the official norms, include the following:

Orfohrafichnyi slovnyk ukrains'koi movy (Orthographic Dictionary of Ukrainian), compiled by S. Holovashchuk, M. Peshchak, V. Rusanivs'kyi and O. Taranenko, second edition. "Dovira", Kyiv, 1999. ISBN 966-507-051-7. Approximately 125,000 words.
Ukrains'kyi orfohrafichnyi slovnyk (Ukrainian Orthographic Dictionary), compiled by V. Chumak, fifth edition. "Dovira", Kyiv, 2005. Approximately 175,000 words.

The Kharkiv norms

Some Ukrainian publications use the "Kharkiv orthographic norms" which differ slightly in some respects from the standard norms current in Ukraine today. The former were agreed in 1927 at a standardisation conference held in Kharkiv (capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1920 to 1934). In the following years, however, official Soviet policy was aimed at gradually modifying certain aspects of the Ukrainian language to align it more closely with Russian. As a result, although some changes have been reversed since Ukraine became independent, the current official orthographic norms still include aspects which, it could be argued, are not natural to Ukrainian.