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In English exists pretty wide range of special rules to start specific words from the capital letters. There are days of the week, months of the year, holidays (Monday, Friday; June, July; New Year), countries, languages & nationalities, religions(Ukraine; Japanese; Buddhism), etc.
What about Ukrainian language?
In Ukrainian language usually only Proper nouns are capitalized. Every other nouns are not capitalized.
You can also find more information about this and about exceptions in these resources:
Ukrainian in general is less demanding in matter of capitalization than English. For example, the following are NOT capitalized in Ukrainian (despite they are in English):
Still many of other cases — e.g. people and pet names, place names (toponyms: countries, streets, etc), organizations, holidays — require capitalization.
