Re:Whistled Turkish
by gnulinux on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:42AM
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That doesn't sound right. English, being a Germanic language, has bizarre amounts of vowels. Some interpret English to have >20 vowels alone, up to low 30s, highly depending on the dialect. And then it has ~24 consonants.
English has all consonants Turkish has, except [1] /c/ and /ɟ/ (also the highly debated Turkish phoneme /ɰ/ which does exist in some English accents). But English has many more consonants such as 2 dental fricatives. There are some Turkish accents with velar nasal (ng in siNG) but most Turkish accents lost this phoneme (only some southeast ones have it). And Turkish has only 8 vowels.
But note that, I think this is a bad example. English is a language spoken in a large geography and thus has many dialects. Turkish has fewer accents and thus less variability in phonology.
[1] Note that even /c/ and /ɟ/ exist in some dialects. Such as k in 'keen' can be pronounced as /c/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology
English has all consonants Turkish has, except [1] /c/ and /ɟ/ (also the highly debated Turkish phoneme /ɰ/ which does exist in some English accents). But English has many more consonants such as 2 dental fricatives. There are some Turkish accents with velar nasal (ng in siNG) but most Turkish accents lost this phoneme (only some southeast ones have it). And Turkish has only 8 vowels.
But note that, I think this is a bad example. English is a language spoken in a large geography and thus has many dialects. Turkish has fewer accents and thus less variability in phonology.
[1] Note that even /c/ and /ɟ/ exist in some dialects. Such as k in 'keen' can be pronounced as /c/