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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Famous quotes containing the word sounds:
“And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)