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 used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
—Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)
“Johann Strauss—Forty couples dancing ... one by one they slip from the hall ... sounds of kisses ... the lights go out”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“It sounds like a soul in hell.”
—Ben Maddow (1909–1992)