Abstract
The article analyzes the process of orthographic norms formation in Eastern Ukraine during the XIX – early XX. The fact of unsolved orthographic problems existence in modern period determines the relevance of this study. Purpose of the article lies both in determination of Kharkiv linguists and writers influence on the Ukrainian literary language orthographic norms development and finding out the ways of orthographic norms formation in a certain period. The phonetic approach to orthographic norms creation, relevant for the initial stage – 1820s, which is used in the first Ukrainian grammar «Grammar of Little Russian dialect» by O. Pavlovskyi (1818) is considered. The opinions of such Kharkiv writers and publishers as H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, E. Hrebinka, S. Pysarevskyi, P. Hulak-Artemovskyi, O. Korsun and I. Betskyi as for the phonetic principle application and creation of the Slobozhan orthography variant are highlighted. This article shows B. Hrinchenko’s exceptional role in organizing of the Ukrainian orthography in the twentieth century and gives a description of the spelling system used by B. Hrinchenko in «Ukrainian Dictionary» (1907–1909), which became universally recognized in the first decades of the twentieth century. The process of normalization and codification of Ukrainian orthographic system during the period of Ukrainian statehood revival with the participation of famous Kharkiv and Kyiv linguists: L. Bulakhovskyi, P. Buzuk, V. Hantsov, V. Demianchuk, O. Kurylo, A. Krymskyi, E. Tymchenko, as well as Galician: K. Studynskyi, I. Sventsytskyi, V. Simovych is described. It is emphasized on the organizational and creative activity of O. Syniavskyi in conducting the All-Ukrainian Spelling Conference in 1927 and his approval and completing of the final version of the Ukrainian literary language orthographic norms. In today’s orthographic norms creation we recommend to take into account the main tendency of past periods linguistic development such as the restoration of national-linguistic identity.
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