Turkish, Lesson Two -- The alphabet

This is a basic introduction to the Turkish alphabet. Here are the special characters:

C -- "jeh"

Ç -- "ch"

Ğ -- "Yumashak Geh", not pronounced

I -- I with no dot (note that I with dot has dot even when capitalized), pronounced "uh"

Ö -- "er"

Ş -- "sh"

Ü -- "ew"

Once you get used to the special characters, you will love the Turkish alphabet, it rocks! It was created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk when he founded the Turkish Republic. He was not only a military genius and a true statesman very similar to our founding fathers, he was also a linguist, who had a deep desire to modernize Turkey. He decided to simplify and standardize the language, and abandoned the use of arabic words and arabic script. He modified the roman alphabet slightly to suit the Turkish language, and assigned one unique character to each sound found in the language. The result is that once you get used to using this script, you will never have trouble spelling a Turkish word that you hear, or pronouncing a Turkish word that you have read! In english we are used to learning exceptions to rules, and learning how to spell words in weird ways, but thanks to the diligent work of Ataturk, you will never need to do that in Turkish.

Güle Güle!

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[RockFreakTuqba]

Can u speak turkish? :))

[n8glenn]

@RockFreakTuqba A little bit. I can get by.

[mustig7725]

"Yok. sol" is incorrect !!!  Correct --> Yok, sağol !

"Tamam" is correct but "Alur" incorrect ! Correct --> Olur !

"Gürüşürüz" is false writing. True --> Görüşürüz

[n8glenn]

@mustig7725 Join the club.

[zakwan10]

great lessons, just a question, when Turkish is written is it only in the printed form or can it be in cursive like in English?

[n8glenn]

@zakwan10 I don't think there's a cursive form, I've never seen one but it's possible that there's one that I haven't seen.

[ugurmal]

it's not "sol" its "sağol". "sol" means left.

and it's not "alur". its "olur".

[Iamaturk]

olmaz is not it is not happening. Olmaz is that wont happen. That is more correct.

[Iamaturk]

@n8glenn "Göt" kelimesi daha çok yakışıyor böyle adamlar için. 

[Gunes3]

@n8glenn Ignore him. This is actually a great initiative you took. There will always be asses around.

[takunya]

@n8glenn thats true he is an ass

[GeekHardware]

Awesome!

[eknvrl]

you're going well, and thanks for the video!;)

[qwer268]

Actually the longest word in Turkish is muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştir­iveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişs­inizcesine. not the Çekoslavakya word.

Çekoslavakya olayında -mısınız?ın ayrı yazılması gerekiyo soru eki olduğu için. some Turkish idioms;

nasılsın? -how are you?

nasılsınız? -how are you?(formal)

ne var ne yok? how are you doing?

güle güle -good bye

görüşürüz -see you

evet -yes

hayır -no (pronounce like 'higher')

[mreuphrates]

I respect your efforts on turkish,my friend.Övgüye değer.Thumbs up!

Also i would like to say that i don't care if there are some mistakes in the words.Even if we write görüşürüz,in speech,we swallow and soften the letters and we are saying "gürüşürüs" to speak faster.