Turkish alphabet

notation of the Turkish language by means of a modified Latin alphabet

Key facts

Script type: Alphabet
Period: 1928 – present
Languages: Turkish
Parent systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet Latin alphabet Turkish alphabet
Child systems: Azerbaijani alphabet , Crimean Tatar alphabet , Gagauz alphabet , Tatar Latin alphabet , Turkmen alphabet
Unicode range: subset of Latin (U+0000...U+024F)

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Wikidata facts

Has part: B/b
Follows: Ottoman Turkish alphabet
Image: Turkish alphabet.svg
Has use: Turkish

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inception: 1928-00-00
writing system: Latin script

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Encyclopedic overview

The Turkish alphabet (Turkish: Türk alfabesi or Türk abecesi) is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. This alphabet represents modern Turkish pronunciation with a high degree of accuracy and specificity. Mandated in 1928 as part of Atatürk's Reforms, it is the current official alphabet and the latest in a series of distinct alphabets used in different eras.

The Turkish alphabet has been the model for the official Latinization of several Turkic languages formerly written in the Arabic or Cyrillic script like Azerbaijani (1991), Turkmen (1993), and recently Kazakh (2021).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turkish alphabet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.