Ukrainian orthography of 2019

The Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Ukrainian: Український правопис 2019 року, romanized: Ukrainskyi pravopys 2019 roku) is the current version of Ukrainian orthography, prepared by the Ukrainian National Orthography Commission. On 22 May 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a new version of the orthography, and on 30 May 2019, this document came into force.

The composition of the Ukrainian National Commission, which prepared the draft orthography, was approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 17 June 2015.

A transitional phase of 5 years was set to implement the new version. During this stage, each institution was deciding independently on the use of the new version. The Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment has been set 5 years to implement the new standards in external independent evaluation tests. On May 22, 2024, the transitional period for the full implementation of the new Ukrainian orthography has ended.

The new edition brought back to use some features of the Ukrainian orthography of 1928 (the so-called Orthography of Kharkiv), which were part of the Ukrainian orthographic tradition thrown out by the Ukrainian orthography of 1933, which began the Russification of the Ukrainian orthography tradition. At the same time, the commission was guided by the understanding that the language practices of Ukrainians in the second half of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st centuries have already become part of the Ukrainian orthography tradition.