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:
“To me no profitable speech sounds ill.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“Tom: Well, tell me, Gusto, you’re so smart. How could I erase a footprint that looks as if it was left by a heel?
Augusta: Well, that sounds almost human.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)