SDLP 110: Cultural Post 3

[Constantinos Beauclair-Kolomtsas]

I find it interesting that the Turkish alphabet utilizes the Latin alphabet. Normally, languages that utilize the Latin alphabet are Indo-European. But Turkish is a Turkic language that used to utilize a writing system that resembled more Persian or Arabic script. I know the change to the Latin alphabet occured under Kemal Ataturk in the early 20th century. I find it fascinating that letters in the Turkish alphabet sometimes are not sounded out anywhere near their European equivalent. For example the letter "C" makes the sound "J" in Turkish which from what I know is not found in any other languages that utilize the Latin alphabet. Of course I'm not a linguist so I could be wrong.