Turkish (Türkçe (listen), Türk dili), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish (İstanbul Türkçesi) or Turkey Turkish (Türkiye Türkçesi), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 70 to 80 million speakers, the national language of Turkey. Start using Mondly for free on your computer or tablet or, better yet, download the Mondly app on your iOS or Android device and learn languages fast anytime, anywhere. However, at the same time, languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Arabic are even harder to learn. The Turkish alphabet is phonetic. Each letter retains its individual pronunciation at all times. Besides, once you master the alphabet, you will already be able to read in Turkish – a great boost for your motivation! The Arabic script was perfect for writing Ottoman Turkish – which included a lot of Arabic and Persian words – but it was poorly suited for the Turkish part of the vocabulary. After the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923, the Arabic script was replaced by the Latin alphabet (1928). yağmur, ağaç. Then, for over 1,000 years, the Turkish language was written using a Turkish form of the Arabic script. Most Turkish letters are similar in pronunciation to their English counterparts. There are a few letters however whose pronunciation is unique Example: English "Taxi" = "Taksi" in Turkish. (Ç-ç) (Ğ-ğ) (I-ı) (İ-i) (Ö-ö) (Ş-ş) As a Muslim Turkish citizen who has background on such topics, I can answer this question clearly. There are no diphthongs except in a few foreign loan words. There are 8 vowels – A, E, I, İ, O, Ö, U, Ü – and 21 consonants in the Turkish alphabet – B, C, Ç, D, F, G, Ğ, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, Ş, T, V, Y, Z. Shift + click a button to insert its upper-case form. The creation of the Turkish Language Society in 1932 was another milestone in the effort to reform it. Three letters of the English alphabet are missing in the Turkish alphabet. The letters W, X, Q do not appear in the Turkish Alphabet. The Turkish alphabet is used for writing, speaking and reading in Turkish.This alphabet is modified from the Latin alphabet.There are 29 letters in the Turkish alphabet of Turkey.The English letters, "Q", "W" and "X" are not in Turkish alphabet. to Turkish. That is also probably why some people believe that Turks speak Arabic. But which language to choose? değil [ˈde.il] (not). The FSI (Foreign Service Institute) from the US government puts Turkish on the fourth tier on their Interagency Language Roundtable (IRL) with 1100 hours or 44 weeks of study needed to achieve the professional working proficiency. Let’s look a little bit at the history and see how today’s Turkish alphabet was born. Alt + click a button to copy a single character to the clipboard.. You can select text and press Ctrl + C to copy it to your document. the letter “Y” is considered a consonant in Turkish and it is used as a buffer to keep vowels apart when it comes to work building; Turkish does not allow two vowels to occur together (except for situations where you have a foreign imported word); Turkish uses second-person pronouns for varying levels of politeness, age, social distance or familiarity toward the addressee; the plural second-person verb and pronoun forms are used to address a single person to express respect. Fortunately, in 1928, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, finally adopted the 29-letter Latin script as a part of his famous Reforms in Turkey – the same alphabet that Turks use today. The Turkish language (or “Türkçe” – as the Turkish people would say) is the most widely spoken Turkic language with around 80 million native speakers all around the world. The Turkik languages have a long history of writing systems.