Turkish alphabet consists of 29 letters - 8 vowels and 21 consonants. Each letter has exactly one associated sound which never changes.
Three letters of the English alphabet are missing in the Turkish alphabet.
There are seven additional characters not found in the English alphabet.
The letters of Turkish alphabet and the sounds associated with these are in the following table...
| Letter | Pronunciation |
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A, a |
like the a in car |
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B, b |
like the b in bet |
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C, c |
like the g in gender |
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Ç, ç |
like the ch in chance |
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D, d |
like the d in debt |
|
E, e |
like the e in less |
|
F, f |
like the f in felony |
|
G, g |
like the g in game |
|
Ğ, ğ |
this is a very weak sound, not pronouncing at all will be ok |
|
H, h |
like the h in hello |
|
I, ı |
like the e in halted |
|
İ, i |
like the ee in keen |
|
J, j |
like the s in leisure |
|
K, k |
like the k in kelly |
|
L, l |
like the l in lamb |
|
M, m |
like the m in man |
|
N, n |
like the n in neighbor |
|
O, o |
like the a in ball |
|
Ö, ö |
like the u in urge |
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P, p |
like the p in pen |
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R, r |
like the r in rent |
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S, s |
like the s in send |
|
Ş, ş |
like the sh in shed |
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T, t |
like the t in tennis |
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U, u |
like the oo in good |
|
Ü, ü |
like the u in nude |
|
V, v |
like the v in vent |
|
Y, y |
like the y in yes |
|
Z, z |
like the z in zen |
From <turkishclass.com>
Turkish is a Turkic language spoken mainly in Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Cyprus. In 2017 there were 71 million native speakers of Turkish, and about 17 million second language speakers. Turkish is an official language in Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Cyprus, and there are also Turkish speakers in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia.
Turkish is a member of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. It is closely related to Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Qashqai, Gagauz, and Balkan Gagauz Turkish, and there is considerable mutual intelligibility between these languages.
The ancestor of modern Turkish, Oghuz, was bought to Anatolia from Central Asia during the 11th century AD by Seljuq Turks. This developed into Ottoman Turkish, and contained many loanwords from Arabic and Persian.
Until 1928 Turkish was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script known as the Ottoman Turkish script. In 1928, as part of his efforts to modernise Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk issued a decree replacing the Arabic script with a version of the Latin alphabet, which has been used ever since. Arabic and Persian loanwords were also replaced with Turkish equivalents. Nowadays, only scholars and those who learnt to read before 1928 can read Turkish written in the Ottoman Turkish script.
Turkish Alphabet (Türk Alfabesi)
From <omniglot.com>
