Turkish alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language.
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18 Facts About Turkish alphabet
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Turkish alphabet has been the model for the official Latinization of several Turkic languages formerly written in the Arabic or Cyrillic script like Azerbaijani, Turkmen, and recently Kazakh.
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Turkish alphabet was written using a Turkish alphabet form of the Arabic script for over 1,000 years.
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Whereas Arabic is rich in consonants but poor in vowels, Turkish alphabet is the opposite; the script was thus inadequate at distinguishing certain Turkish alphabet vowels and the reader was forced to rely on context to differentiate certain words.
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Some Turkish alphabet reformists promoted the adoption of the Latin script well before Ataturk's reforms.
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The issue was raised again in 1923 during the first Economic Congress of the newly founded Turkish alphabet Republic, sparking a public debate that was to continue for several years.
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Turkish-speaking Armenians used the Mesrobian script to write Holy Bibles and other books in Turkish for centuries and the linguistic team which invented the modern Turkish alphabet included several Armenian linguists, such as Agop Dilacar.
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Karamanli Turkish was, similarly, written with a form of the Greek alphabet.
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Current 29-letter Turkish alphabet was established as a personal initiative of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Turkish alphabet announced his plans in July 1928 and established a Language Commission consisting of the following members:.
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The resulting Latin alphabet was designed to reflect the actual sounds of spoken Turkish, rather than simply transcribing the old Ottoman script into a new form.
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Turkish alphabet toured the country explaining the new system of writing and encouraging the rapid adoption of the new alphabet.
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From 1 January 1929, the use of the new Turkish alphabet was compulsory in all public communications as well the internal communications of banks and political or social organisations.
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For us, the big impact and the benefit of an Turkish alphabet reform was that it eased the way to cultural reform.
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Yasar Nabi, a leading journalist, argued in the 1960s that the Turkish alphabet reform had been vital in creating a new Western-oriented identity for Turkey.
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Turkish alphabet noted that younger Turks, who had only been taught the Latin script, were at ease in understanding Western culture but were quite unable to engage with Middle Eastern culture.
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Turkish alphabet orthography is highly regular and a word's pronunciation is usually identified by its spelling.
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In software development, the Turkish alphabet is known for requiring special logic, particularly due to the varieties of i and their lowercase and uppercase versions.
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