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The Turkish alphabet (Turkish: Türk alfabesi) is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language.
The Gagauz alphabet adopted is modelled on the modern Turkish alphabet, with the addition of three letters: ä to represent the sound of [æ] (as ə in Azeri), ê to represent the [ə] (schwa) sound, which does not exist in Turkish, and ţ to represent the sound [ts] from the Romanian alphabet.
The official Gagauz alphabet adopted is modelled after the modern Turkish alphabet, with the addition of three letters: ä to represent the sound of [æ] (as ə in Azeri); ê to represent the [ə] (schwa) sound, which does not exist in Turkish; and ț or ţ to represent the sound [ts] as in Romanian.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Turkish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Turkish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The phonology of Turkish deals with current phonology and phonetics, particularly of Istanbul Turkish. A notable feature of the phonology of Turkish is a system of vowel harmony that causes vowels in most words to be either front or back and either rounded or unrounded. Velar stop consonants have palatal allophones before front vowels.
In order to unify, and at the initiative of Turkey in November 1991, an international scientific symposium was held in Istanbul on the development of a unified alphabet for the Turkic languages. It was completely based on the Turkish alphabet, but with the addition of some missing letters: ä, ñ, q, w, x. As a result, the alphabet consisted of ...
Language Alphabet Latin Cyrillic Perso-Arabic Altai language (south) Altai alphabets: Historical: Official: Altai language (north) Historical: Widely used: Äynu language
The letter, and its counterpart in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, غ , were once pronounced as a consonant, /ɣ/, the voiced velar fricative, until very recently in the history of Turkish, but it has undergone a sound change by which the consonant was completely lost and compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel occurred, hence its ...