In Uludağ sözlük -an online dictionary written by internet users in an informal style-, you can find more loanwords and check how they are shaped by time.Īlso, some long vowels represent emphasis.
For example, the English word “ Jean” exists in Turkish as “ cin”. So, it’s important if you know these vowel types because they are useful to learn vowel harmony rules.Īnother thing you should know that some of the borrowings that originally had long vowels are shortened in Turkish. Watch the vowel types video if you want to hear the sounds from a Turkish speaker. Speakers always try to spend less effort. Shaping your mouth for two rounded vowels is easier than shaping for one rounded and one unrounded vowel. For example, if there is a rounded vowel in the verb-stem, the suffix you need to attach becomes rounded too. Turkish grammatical rules like vowel harmony or consonant alternation are derived from these vowel types or consonant types. Because, it’ll make your life a lot easier when you are learning Turkish grammar. You might wonder why would you need to know if a vowel is rounded not or back or front. Iii.“ Front” or “ Back”, according to the position of your tongue. Ii.The space in your mouth decides whether a vowel is “ open” or “ closed”. The position of the lips decides whether a vowel is “ rounded” or “ unrounded”. 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. You might be a little confused when you see the abundance of Turkish vowels.
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