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Funnily, the actual pronunciation is easier now, and it (to me) sounds 99% close to Turkia. I don't get why they went with such complicated letter sequence for
by Yizahi 1y ago
Funnily, the actual pronunciation is easier now, and it (to me) sounds 99% close to Turkia. I don't get why they went with such complicated letter sequence for such a straightforward word. Though both languages are not native to me, so I may be wrong. But I was baffled this year, after discovering that incomprehensible Türkiye is actually Turkia.
PS: I'm going from this this video as a basis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjVIaZA14c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjVIaZA14c
- School-Cotton 1y agoTürkiye in Turkish contains sounds that can’t be pronounced in English, and does not sound much like “Turkia”. The closest English approximate pronunciation (which is what you hear in that video) does sound pretty close to Turkia, though. > I don't get why they went with such complicated letter sequence for such a straightforward word. The spelling wasn’t invented recently, it’s just the standard word for Turkey in the Turkish language.