The Turkish Alphabet
- Turkish alphabet consists of 29 letters - 8 vowels and 21 consonants.
- Each letter has exactly one associated sound which never changes.
- Three letters of the English alphabet are missing in the Turkish alphabet:
- (Q-q)
- (W-w)
- (X-x)
- There are six additional characters not found in the English alphabet:
- (ŽÇ-ç)
- (Ğ-ğ)
- (I-ı)
- (İ-i)
- (ŽÖ-ö)
- (Ş-ş)
- (ŽÜ-ü)
- The letters of Turkish alphabet and the sounds associated with these are in the following table:
| (A, a) | (B, b) | (C, c) | (ŽÇ, ç) | (D, d) |
| (E, e) | (F, f) | (G, g) | (Ğ, ğ) | (H, h) |
| (I, ı) | (İ, i) | (J, j) | (K, k) | (L, l) |
| (M, m) | (N, n) | (O, o) | (ŽÖ, ö) | (P, p) |
| (R, r) | (S, s) | (Ş, ş) | (T, t) | (U, u) |
| (ŽÜ, ü) | (V, v) | (Y, y) | (Z, z) |
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