Language/Turkish/Pronunciation/Alphabet-and-Pronunciation

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==Alphabet and Pronunciation==

{| class="wikitable"
!|The
alphabet
!|Sound
!|pronunciation example

|-
|A a
|/a/
|a' as in father

|-
|B b
|/b/
|b' as in bike

|-
|C c
|/dʒ/
|j' as in job

|-
|Ç ç
|/tʃ/
|ch' as in church

|-
|D d
|/d/
|d' as in date

|-
|E e
|/e/, /ɛ/
|e'
as in red or 'a' as in car

|-
|F f
|/f/
|f' as in find

|-
|G g
|/ɡ/, /ɟ/
|g' as in go

|-
|Ğ ğ
|/ɣ/1
|No equivalent: listen to the video below

|-
|H h
|/h/
|h' as in high

|-
|I ı
|/ɯ/
|e' as in open

|-
|İ i
|/i/
|i' as in machine

|-
|J j
|/ʒ/
|s' as
in pleasure

|-
|K k
|/k/, /c/
|k' as in kilo

|-
|L l
|/l/, /ɫ/
|l' as in love

|-
|M m
|/m/
|m' as in make

|-
|N n
|/n/
|n' as in new

|-
|O o
|/o/
|o' as in more

|-
|Ö ö
|/ø/
|u' as in burn

|-
|P p
|/p/
|p' as in paint

|-
|R r
|/ɾ/
|the 'r' as in far

|-
|S s
|/s/
|s' as in sit

|-
|Ş ş
|/ʃ/
|sh' as in shine

|-
|T t
|/t/
|t' as in start

|-
|U u
|/u/
|u' as
in ultimate

|-
|Ü ü
|/y/
|u' as in cube

|-
|V v
|/v/
|v' as in victory

|-
|Y y
|/j/
|y' as in you

|-
|Z z
|/z/
|z' as in zoo
|}

==== Important note: ====
In Turkish, every letter is equal to one sound. So this is one thing that makes pronunciation easier. If you know sounds of words you can read everything loudly. For an example, "Türkiye" word. Lets look wich letter equals to which sound. T as in start, Ü as in cube, R as in far, K as in kilo, İ as in machine, Y as in you, E as in red. And if you get them together you can read the word. And remember that "Türkiye" word is written by 7 letter so you're going to use 7 sounds to read it. And also an important thing, you can't create new sounds by combinating letters. For an example "sch" from German or "oux" from French.

==Videos==
Nothing is better than listening to a real Turkish pronunce the different letters. Just Watch the videos below :

<youtube>_E0R1bq5_Z4</youtube>
<youtube>l2mJKd8uebk</youtube>

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