Help:IPA/Turkish

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Turkish language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-tr}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Turkish on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Turkish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

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Consonants
IPA	Example	English approximation
b	bebek	about
β	vücut[1]	like vase, but with both lips
c	şekil[2]	skew
d	madde	ado
dʒ	ocak	jump
f	far	food
ɡ	gam[2]	ago
ɟ	gerçek[2]	argue
h	anahtar	home
j	hayat	yes
k	kabak[2]	core
l	bilinç[3]	late
ɫ	kulak[2]	tail
m	cuma	much
n	nesne	not
ɲ	engin[4]	canyon
ŋ	yangın[5]	wing
p	pazar	pan
ɾ	anahtarlar	AmE atom
s	sinek	send
ʃ	kişi	shoe
t	Türkçe	table
tʃ	çivi	change
v	çivi[1]	vase
z	pazar	zone
ʒ	jilet	leisure

Vowels
IPA	Example	English approximation
a	kabak	father
æ	erkek[6]	cat
e	erkek	bed
i	çivi	creek
o	tokmak	story
œ	özgürlük	somewhat like bird
u	ruh	soup
ɯ	kış	somewhat like roses
y	Türkçe	somewhat like cue

Suprasegmentals
IPA	Examples
ˈ	torbalı [toɾbaˈɫɯ] 'with bag' Torbalı [ˈtoɾbaɫɯ] (a place name)[7]
ː	â, î, û,[8] ğ[9]	oğlan [oːˈɫan] 'boy'