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Letter Pairs
There are six pairs of two similar but different letters - each letter
in these pairs are pronounced differently from each other.
C- G- I- O- S- U-
Pronunciation Differences
The Eight Vowels are divided into two groups for Vowel Harmony
purposes. All pronunciation examples shown are given in British
English.
The Undotted-A Vowel Group
A - is as u in English lucky or mutter.
I - Undotted I - is the er sound in porter or water - without any r
sound.
O - is as the o sound in lottery or bottom.
U - is as the oo sound in loot or boot
The Dotted-E Vowel Group
E - is as e in letter or set or met
- Dotted - is as ee in meet or ea in seat.
- is as ir in bird or shirt - without any r sound.
- is as ew sound few or stew
Consonant Differences
The Pronunciation of these Consonants differs from English
Pronunciation:
C - is always a j sound as in jam jar.
- is the ch sound as in church
G - is always hard as in gate. - It is never soft as in general.
(soft G) - lengthens the preceding vowel. It has no sound and
never begins a word.
- The Turkish soft - - can be likened to the silent gh sound in the
English words such as - weight, light, fought - etc.
H - is always aspirated as in Henry. It is never silent as in Heir.
R - is always strongly rolled even on the end of words.
S - is always hissed as in safe. - It is never a z sound as in these
or those.
- is the sh sound as in sharp or bash.
C - Ceyhan
- anakkale
D - Denizli
E - Edirne
F - Fatsa
H - Hatay
- zmir
I - Isparta
J - Jandarma
K - Kars
N - Nide
O - Ordu
- demi
P - Polatl
R - Rize
T - Tokat
U - Uak
- nye
V - Van
Y- Yozgat
Z - Zonguldak
Turkish Characters
Computers, Keyboards and the Internet
Turkish Q(werty)-Keyboard Layout Installation
To install multi language support for Windows. Open the
Add/Remove Programs dialog box. At the Windows Setup tab, click
Multi Language Support, and then click Details.
Make sure a check mark appears beside the language or
languages you want to use. Click OK, and then click OK again.
The changes take effect after your computer restarts. You can use
Windows to create documents in many different languages.
However, to create documents in a Central European, Cyrillic,
Baltic, Greek, or Turkish-based language, your must install multi
language support.
Keyboard Layout
To change the keyboard layout for an installed keyboard language
go to control panel and open the Keyboard Properties dialog box,
click the Language tab,click the Add button to select the Turkish-Q
keyboard layout you want to use, and then click OK. After closing
the control panel and returning to Widows you will be able to
select English or Turkish-Q keyboard usage from the taskbar. Once
you have done this, when you switch to your Turkish keyboard
layout the keys are set up basically the same but now the
following exceptions apply
. =
> =
[ =
{ =
; =
: =
' = i
" =
, =
< =
] =
} =
Start
Control Panel
(3)*If you are on Category View, click on Date, Time,
Language and Regional Options, then Regional
and Language Options.
* If you are on Classic View, click on Regional and
(2) When the Start menu opens up, click on
Language Options.
(4) Click on the Languages tab.
Systems Preferences.
2. Select International.
3. Select Input Menu.
4. Select Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer,
whilst still in Input Menu scroll down to Turkish - QWERTY PC
1. Go to
and select it, also at the bottom select Show input menu in menu
bar.
5. Close Systems Preferences.
6. At the top right hand of your screen will now be showing the
flag of the Country your keyboard is normally set to.
(a) Click on the flag and several options will appear including the
Turkish flag, when you want to change to using the Turkish
keyboard simply select this flag and your keyboard will change.
(b) At the same time select show Keyboard Viewer, this will enable
you to see where the different keys are placed.
7. When you want to go back to your original keyboard simply
reverse step 6.