Sounds
See also: Turkish phonologyTurkish orthography is highly regular and a word's pronunciation is always completely identified by its spelling. The following table presents the Turkish letters, the sounds they correspond to in International Phonetic Alphabet and how these can be approximated more or less by an English speaker.
| Letter | IPA | English approximation |
Letter | IPA | English approximation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | a | /a/ | As a in father | M | m | /m/ | As m in man |
| B | b | /b/ | As b in boy | N | n | /n/ | As n in nice |
| C | c | /dʒ/ | As j in joy | O | o | /o/ | As o in more |
| Ç | ç | /tʃ/ | As ch in champion | Ö | ö | /ø/ | As i in bird |
| D | d | /d/ | As d in dog | P | p | /p/ | As p in pin |
| E | e | /e/ | As e in red | R | r | /ɾ/ | As r in rat |
| F | f | /f/ | As f in far | S | s | /s/ | As s in song |
| G | g | /ɡ/, /ɟ/ | As g in got | Ş | ş | /ʃ/ | As sh in show |
| Ğ | ğ | /ɰ/ | (see note) | T | t | /t/ | As t in tick |
| H | h | /h/ | As h in hot | U | u | /u/ | As u in bull |
| I | ı | /ɯ/ | Roughly as i in cousin | Ü | ü | /y/ | As ue in clue |
| İ | i | /i/ | As ee in feet | V | v | /v/ | As v in waver |
| J | j | /ʒ/ | As s in measure | Y | y | /j/ | As y in yes |
| K | k | /k/, /c/ | As k in kit | Z | z | /z/ | As z in zigzag |
| L | l | /ɫ/, /l/ | As l in love | ||||
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