![]() Turkish vowels can be categorized according to three criteria: Roundness of lips and frontness of tongue shape the sounds of these 8 vowels. But still, ‘Kaos’ and ‘Kaotik’ are two popular words you can hear in modern Turkish.Īnyways, let’s try to see vowel types from a linguistic perspective and with basic terms so that you can understand easily. ‘Kaos’ doesn’t follow the vowel rule, of course. (of course, this rule fails when suffixes come into the picture) ![]() Then, you can understand that word-stem is most probably a borrowing. What do I mean with that?īut, there are words that do not follow this rule. ![]() In the Turkish language, the letter sequence has to follow one rule: Vowels precede consonants and vice versa. This makes reading Turkish a lot easier! (by only knowing the pronunciation of each letter) There are no gliding vowels (diphthong) in Turkish. Please watch Vowels Types video if you want to hear the sounds of these vowels. “ö”, “ü”, “ı” are the distinct Turkish vowels that you can’t find in the English alphabet but only in the Turkish alphabet.Ĩ Turkish vowels are: “ a, e, ı, i, o, ö, u, ü”. Okay, let’s learn Turkish vowels together. English and Spanish language have 5 vowels whereas the Turkish language has 8 vowels in the alphabet. To understand this post in a better way, watch these videos below.You might be a little confused when you see the abundance of Turkish vowels. We have to carefully observe all the vowel sounds represented by these vowel letters.Ģ0 vowels which we get from 5 vowel letters a,e,i,o,u, are further divided in two partsġ2 monophthongs and 8 diphthongs are 20 vowel sounds.Ĭlick here to read my previous post about Monophthongs or pure vowels in detail with examples.Ĭlick here to read about Diphthongs or impure vowels in detail with examples. University letter ‘u’ represents ‘y’ sound as consonant. ![]() Here, letter ‘u’ represents vowel sound /ʌ/ ![]() Whereas letter ‘u’ represents different sound in following examples. There are 20 vowel sounds in total which we get from these 5 vowel letters a,e, i, o, u.įor example letter ‘a’ represent various vowel sounds in the following words below. In this way there are not only 5 vowel sounds in English. A,E,I,O,U are the vowel letters which represent all the vowel sounds. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |