Category:Ukrainian pre-1990 spellings

This category contains Ukrainian words spelled with pre-1990 orthography. Before 1990 there were several rival alphabets used to write Ukrainian, mostly variations on the Cyrilic alphabet with some Latin proposals as well. The Maksymovychivka system (invented in 1829, used widely until 1895, and in some places until 1935) preserved the etymology of words at the expense of modern pronounciation, and its spellings are mostly similar to Russian spellings before that language's own major reforms in 1918. The more phonemic Skrypnykivka was introduced in Soviet Ukraine in 1927 and was adopted as well in Polish-adminstered Galicia and the wider diaspora. It was soon suppressed in Soviet Ukraine, but was still used in the diaspora. Soviet Ukraine used the slightly Russified Postyshivka until 1990, when a modified form of Skrypnykivka was reinstated as the new official spellings.