Turkish alphabet
The Turkish alphabet (Turkish: Türk alfabesi) 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.
| Turkish alphabet | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Time period | 1928 – present |
| Languages | Turkish |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Child systems | Azerbaijani alphabet Crimean Tatar alphabet Gagauz alphabet Tatar Latin alphabet Turkmen alphabet |
| Unicode | |
| subset of Latin (U+0000...U+024F) | |
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).
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