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GLW
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Help to translate Turkish/English spelling

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Looking for someone from around Ankara Turkey. He sent a letter United States and signed it with what appears to be Yasar Yamankal

If you were Turkish and tried to write in English... what would be the turkish spelling of the letters... Yasar Yamankal?

I have done a people search for this name and found nothing. Any ideas?
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Post by aliensource »

in Turkish there are some more letters than in english, but the thing is that "what u see is what u get" on pronounciation; all is read as you see it
"sh" in english is the s with the comma (,) below it
"s" is a plain s, as you would read in the word "see"
"i" is pronounced "ee" as in "bee"
"i" without the dot on top is somehow more complicated; its pronounced like the i in "still", but in a way like youre trying to lift some weights or something. It really has no equivalent in english
To make "ya" is the same in english and Turkish. i.e., you would spell "yeah" like "yiea" in turkish to have the same effect
a "c" is pronounced "g" (like the letter, gee"
and a "c" with the comma (,) below it (like in French) is pronounced "ch" (like in "chip")
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