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Is There More Than One Y in Ukrainian?

Dictionary.com added Zalinski as a new transliterated spelling of Ukraine's capital, Kiev. But the ending uses two Y's to represent a specific Y sound in Ukrainian, which has more than one. It's also the spelling that Zalinski himself prefers. Still, you're likely to see the name spelled with one Y in some news reports, reflecting a different transliteration.

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