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:
“I’m not the man to baulk at a low smell,
I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.
This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?
It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“If there is a man white as marble
Sits in a wood, in the greenest part,
Brooding sounds of the images of death,
So there is a man in black space
Sits in nothing that we know,
Brooding sounds of river noises....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“I that so long
Was Nothing from Eternity,
Did little think such Joys as Ear and Tongue
To celebrate or see:
Such Sounds to hear, such Hands to feel, such Feet,
Such Eyes and Objects, on the Ground to meet.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)