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Consecutive vowels
1.       bod
5999 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 01:49 pm

This site and other sources say that there can never be two consecutive vowels in Turkish. Does this only apply to cases where a suffix is added to a word or is it true of the whole of the language including single words???

Cheers, Bod xxx

2.       mella
202 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 02:10 pm

As far as I know, it concernes all the words, not only suffixes. But there are some exceptions like "saat" and also other words that are Arabic in original.

3.       bod
5999 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 02:13 pm

Quoting mella:

As far as I know, it concernes all the words, not only suffixes. But there are some exceptions like "saat" and also other words that are Arabic in original.



Yeah - that is the only exception I could think of......but in that case do you sound the 'a' twice in speech?

4.       erdinc
2151 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 02:14 pm

Good question.
It applies to suffixes.
Example:

Dative Case Suffix: -e -a (meaning to, towards)

If the last vowel is a deep vowel (a,ı,o,u) we use -a
okul+a :to the school

If the last vowel is a sharp vowel (e,i,ö,ü) we use -e
deniz+e :to the sea

But if the last vowel is a deep vowel (a,ı,o,u) and the word ends with the vowel we put the bufer y inbetween:

su+ya: to the water
hava+ya: to the sky
Ankara'ya: to Ankara

But if the last vowel is a sharp vowel (e,i,ö,ü) and the word ends with the vowel we put the bufer y inbetween:
kedi+ye: to the cat
Türkiye'ye : to Turkia

http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/nouns.htm

5.       bod
5999 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 02:23 pm

Quoting erdinc:

Good question.
It applies to suffixes.



Thanks for the explanation.
Except that isn't quite what I was asking......

Perhaps the question could be better asked as:
Is "saat" the only word in Turkish with consecutive vowels or are there other exceptions? If so, how common are they?

6.       erdinc
2151 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 02:25 pm

There arent many. Just a few. In fact right now I cant think of others. Saat is the most common.

By the way, all the suffixes follow the rules.

7.       mltm
3690 posts
 02 Dec 2005 Fri 09:36 pm

vaat: promise
vaaz: homily. sermon
taarruz: attack
müsait: convenient. suitable

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