The current Turkish alphabet used for the Turkish language replaced the earlier arabic alphabet and was created at the initative of Kemal Atat�rk by borrowing different Latin characters in 1928. The letter � was taken from the Swedish alphabet because the Swedish interpreter from the Dragoman House (ambassador house) was assigned to the committee creating the new writing language. � was taken from Albanian, Ş from Romanian, and � from German.

Letters

A, B, C, �, D, E, F, G, Ğ, H, I, İ, J, K, L, M, N, O, �, P, R, S, Ş, T, U, �, V, Y, Z

Note that dotted and undotted I are separate letters, each with its own uppercase and lowercase form. I is the capital form of ı, and İ is the capital form of i. The Turkish alphabet has no q, w or x. Instead, those characters are written as k, v and ks.

Optional circumflex accents can be used with "�", "�" and "û" to disambiguate words with different meanings but otherwise the same spelling, or to indicate palatalization of a preceeding consonant, or long vowels in loanwords, particularly form Arabic. These are seen as variants of "a", "i", and "u" and are becoming quite rare modern usage.

See also

• Official script

External links

• The Turkish Alphabet (http://www.turkishlingua.com/alphabet.html)
• Online Turkish (http://www.onlineturkish.com/alphabet.asp)

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