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Were يانيه and یانیه interchangeable in Ottoman Turkish?
Copy/pasting from this official pdf from the Turkish government produces يانيه. Czech Wiki uses the same spelling. English Wikipedia and Wiktionary, however, both use the spelling یانیه. Those look ...
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What is the rule in Turkish called where /e/ becomes [æ] when preceding a syllable final nasal or liquid consonant?
Examples of these are words like
"sen" [sæn] vs [se̞n] (you)
"sel" [sæl] vs [se̞l] (flood)
where the latter realizations sound less natural to the average Istanbul Turkish speaker.
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Why is vowel length not considered phonemic in Turkish?
Excuse me if this is a very novice question, but there are pairs in Turkish like "yağma" /ja:ma/ (plunder) and "yama" /jama/ (patch), or "olan" /olan/ (one that's there) ...
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What's the phonological explanation of Turkish speakers pronouncing "r" as "sh" at the end of the word?
I'm a native Turkish speaker and I recently started noticing people around me pronounce "r" as "sh", sometimes [ʒ], when it's at the end of a word. So it's like,
Hayır -> Hayış
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Is the Turkish /n/ dental apical or dental laminal?
According to Wikipedia the Turkish /n/ is dental, but it doesn't specify whether it's produced by the tip or the blade of the tongue.
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Turkish stem consonant alternation
I am currently writing a paper which draws on the characteristics of Turkish (or Turkic) phonology, and would like to know more about stem consonant alternation in this language. Specifically, will ...
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