In Turkish, the vowel used in the word "hat" does not exist. Nevertheless, there are people, especially those with Arabic or Kurdish lineage, speaking Turkish as a secondary language. Those people usually substitute the vowel "a" with the Arabic or Kurdish wovel "ae".
There are 8 wovels in the Turkish language and their use is bound by the two wovel harmony rules which govern the use of what we may call as hard and soft wovels as well as round and plain vowels. Accordingly, a hard vowel (a,ý,o,u) cannot coexist with a soft wovel (e,i,ö,ü in the same word. Furthermore, plain vowels (a,i,ý,e) cannot be used together with round vowels (o,ö,u,ü . You can easily determine the originality of a word by checking it against these two vowel harmony rules.
As a native Azeri we have a lot of sounds like "a" in HAT but in turkish it seems to me the letter "e" is sometimes pronuced as "A" in HAT and not "e" in PET.
Can anybody make this clear for me?
Edited (10/22/2009) by vineyards
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