A pejorative meaning of the word began to develop in the Viking Age, but is clearest in the medieval Icelandic sagas, written two or three centuries later â in the 1300s and 1400s.
The Ukrainian is a cyrillic alphabet, not latin, so it is similar to other Eastern Slavic alphabets (including Russian). While many letters are similar, most slavic languages have letters that are unique to their alphabets. The Russian alphabet includes such letters as Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, the Ukranian one doesn't include these letters.
In its written form the Ukrainian language uses the Cyrillic script and has an alphabet consisting of 33 letters: Three of the letters, Ò, Ñ and Ñ, are unique to Ukrainian. Under Soviet rule, the letter Ò was officially excluded from the alphabet, as part of an attempt by the Soviet authorities to bring Ukrainian closer to Russian. It has, however, been reintroduced into current standard Ukrainian.