Turkish alphabet

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The Turkish alphabet is a modern, phonetic writing system of 29 Latin-based letters used to represent the sounds of the Turkish language.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
writing system
adoptedDuring Atatürk's reforms
basedOn Latin alphabet
containsLetter A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
Y
Z
Ç
Ö
Ü
Ğ
İ
Ş
countryUsedIn Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
surface form: Northern Cyprus

Turkey
dateOfAdoption 1928-11-01
direction left-to-right
excludesLetter Q
W
X
hasConsonantLetters 21
hasVowelLetters 8
ISOBasicLatinSubset true
isPhonetic true
languageFamily Turkic languages
numberOfLetters 29
officialStatusIn Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
surface form: Northern Cyprus

Turkey
orthographicPrinciple one letter per phoneme (approximate)
replaced Ottoman Turkish
surface form: Ottoman Turkish alphabet
scriptType Latin-based alphabet
standardizedBy Türk Dil Kurumu
surface form: Turkish Language Association
usesDiacriticsOnLetters Ç
Ö
Ü
Ğ
İ
Ş
writingSystemOf Turkish language

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Latin alphabet influenced Turkish alphabet
Turkish language writingSystem Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Turkish Latin alphabet
Turkish language reform Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Atatürk language reforms
Cypriot Turkish writingSystem Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Turkish Latin alphabet
Ottoman Turkish writingReformReplacedBy Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Latin-based Turkish alphabet
Hat Law of 1925 relatedTo Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Alphabet Reform in Turkey
ota writingReformReplacedBy Turkish alphabet
subject surface form: Ottoman Turkish
this entity surface form: Latin-based Turkish alphabet
Hawar alphabet basedOn Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Turkish Latin alphabet
Turkmen alphabet influencedBy Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Turkish Latin alphabet
İkindi Üstü originalScript Turkish alphabet
this entity surface form: Turkish Latin alphabet