Türkic Alphabets

This is a partial comparative table of contemporary alphabets. For Cyrillic alphabets, imposed in the Former USSR with still continued vestiges, a number of Internet sites provide custom fonts and a variety of non-standard keyboard layouts.

English	Turkish	Azeri   Latin	Bashkir Latin	Tatar  Latin	Uigur   Latin	Uigur   Arabic	Uzbek Latin
Aa	Aa	Aa	Aa	Aa	Aa		Aa
	â	ə	Ǝǝ		Ǝǝ
Bb	Bb	Bb	Bb	Bb	Bb	ب	Bb
Cc	Cc	Cc	Cc	Cc	Cc	ج
	Çç	Çç		Çç	Çç	چ	Ch ch
Dd	Dd	Dd	Dd	Dd	Dd	د	Dd
			Ðđ
Ee	Ee	Ee	Ee	Ee	Ee		Ee
Ff	Ff	Ff	Ff	Ff	Ff	ف	Ff
Gg	Gg	Gg	Gg	Gg	Gg	گ	Gg
	ğ	Ğğ	Ğğ	Ğğ	Ğğ	غ	G'g'
Hh	Hh	Hh	Hh	Hh	Hh		Hh
Ii	Ìi	Ìi	Ìi	Ìi	Ìi		Ii
	Iı	Iı		Iı
Jj	Jj	Jj	Jj	Jj	Jj	ژ	Jj
Kk	Kk	Kk	Kk	Kk	Kk	ق	Kk
Ll	Ll	Ll	Ll	Ll	Ll	ل	Ll
Mm	Mm	Mm	Mm	Mm	Mm	م	Mm
Nn	Nn	Nn	Nn	Nn	Nn	ن	Nn
			Ŋŋ	Ññ	Ŋŋ		Ng ng
Oo	Oo	Oo	Oo	Oo	Oo		Oo
	Öö	Öö	Öö	Öö	Öö		O'o'
Pp	Pp	Pp	Pp	Pp	Pp	پ	Pp
Qq		Qq	Qq	Qq	Qq	ك	Qq
Rr	Rr	Rr	Rr	Rr	Rr	ر	Rr
Ss	Ss	Ss	Ss	Ss	Ss	س	Ss
	Şş	Şş	Şş	Şş	Şş	ش	Sh sh
Tt	Tt	Tt	Tt	Tt	Tt	ت	Tt
Uu	Uu	Uu	Uu	Uu	Uu		Uu
	Üü	Üü		Üü	Üü
Vv	Vv	Vv	Vv	Vv	Vv		Vv
Ww	Ww			Ww
Xx		Xx	Xx	Xx	Xx	خ	Xx
Yy	Yy	Yy	Yy	Yy	Yy	ي	Yy
Zz	Zz	Zz	Zz	Zz	Zz	ز	Zz
		ь	Ьь

Pronunciation - Turkish

A, a     as in ‘art or ‘bar’

â          a faint ‘y’ sound in the preceding consonant

E, e     as in ‘fell’ or as the first vowel in ‘ever’

Ì, i       a short ‘i’ as in ‘hit’or ‘sit’

I, ı      a neutral vowel; as the ‘a’ in ‘ago’

O, o    between the ‘o’ in ‘hot’ and the ‘aw’ in’awe’

Ö, ö    as the ‘e’ in ‘her’ said with pursed lips

U, u    as the ‘oo’ in ‘moo’

Ü, ü    an exaggerated rounded lip ‘yoo’

C, c    as the ’j’ in ‘jet’

Ç, ç    as the 'ch’ in ‘church’

G, g   always hard as in ‘get’, not as in ‘gentle’

ğ        silent, it lengthens the preceding vowel

H, h    always pronounced; a weak ‘h* as in ‘half’

J, j      as the ‘z’ in ‘azure’

S, s     always as in ‘stress’, not as in ‘ease’

Ş, ş      as the ‘sh’ in ‘show’

V, v     soft, amost like a ‘w’

W, w   same as Turkish ‘v’, only for foreign words

Pronunciation - Tatar

All letters of Tatar alphabet identical to letters of Turkish alphabet are pronounced identically to Turkish letters. Tatar specifics are Ğ ğ, Ii, Ññ, Qq, Ww, Xx:

 Ğ, ğ    guttural g; somewhat harsh, protractible, sound when you pronounce g down in the throat, as if you growl. Tatar g is somewhat harsher than Turkish g. Turkish g sometimes designates prolongation of the previous vowel, and sometimes is pronounced as 'y'.

 I, ı    as protracted ‘i’ in the word ‘platinum’, back-mouth version of vowel i  

Ñ, ñ    as the ‘ng’ in ‘darling’

Q, q    guttural version of k, pronounced down in the throat

 X, x    guttural 'h', pronounced down in the throat, represented in English as ‘kh’

Pronunciation - Uzbek

Pronunciation as in English, Uzbek specifics are identical to letters of Turkish alphabet but using English conventions. Stress in Uzbek is generally on the last syllable, except for a few suffixes, which are never stressed. Two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately, e.g. “soat” is pronounced like English “saw at”, but a vowel followed by “y” becomes a diphthong, e.g. “boy” is pronounced the same as English “boy”.