Turkish Alphabet - Sounds

Sounds

See also: Turkish phonology

Turkish 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
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:

    Johann Strauss—Forty couples dancing ... one by one they slip from the hall ... sounds of kisses ... the lights go out
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    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.
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    The fragrance of the woman not her self,
    Her self in her manner not the solid block,
    The day in its color not perpending time,
    Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
    The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)