Turkish Alphabet
29
letters: 8
vowels, 21
consonants
The
Turkish language belongs to the Turkic group of languages. It is also the sixth widest spoken language in the world. It is related to Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Tatar, and Azeri and distantly related to
Mongolian,
Manchu-Tungus,
Korean, and perhaps
Japanese. It once was written in
Arabic-like characters, but changed to a Romanized script in the 20th Century.
The Turkish language does not contain the letters
Q,
W, or
X. All letters are pronounced, and every single letter in Turkish has a
single pronouncation. Unlike
English, where letters can change their pronounciation by which letters they are next to.
The Turkish language has:
- Vowel Harmony, which can be found in all Ural-Altaic languages
- Absence of gender
- Agglutination
- Adjectives precede nouns
- Verbs come at the end of sentences.
Uppercase/Lowercase
Example Pronounciation
A a
eg. bUs
B b
eg. Ball
C c
eg. Jam
Ç ç
eg. CHair
D d
eg. Death
E e
eg. gEt
F f
eg. Fall
G g
eg. Game
Ğ ğ yumusak g = soft g
eg. Yet and it can also be silent
H h
eg. Help
I ı undotted I
eg. natIOn
İ i dotted İ
eg. mE
J j
eg. pleaSure
K k
eg. talK
L l
eg. Laugh
M m
eg. Mouth
N n
eg. Net
O o
eg. pOrt
Ö ö
eg. cOlonel
P p
eg. Pot
R r
eg. Rook
S s
eg. Sand
Ş ş
eg. SHot
T t
eg. Talk
U u
eg. pUll
Ü ü
eg. TUrk
V v
eg. Vest
Y y
eg. Yellow
Z z
eg. Zephyr
Sources:
Ataman Hotel - The Turkish Language
http://www.atamanhotel.com/language.html
sounds of turkish -- spoken turkish alphabet
http://www2.egenet.com.tr/mastersj/sounds-of-turkish--alphabet.html
Gritchka
Special thanks to
Snicker_Furfoot and
tres_equis for helping me with finding the characters.