[Ads-l] Turkey is now "T ürkiye"

[Tom Zurinskas]

I am told the best pronunciation of" Türkiye" is ~Tuerkeeye
(with ~ue as in "true" ~ee as in "see" and ~ye as in "yes".
So perhaps a "Turk" is no longer a ~Terk but a ~Tuerk

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Tom Zurinskas,  Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs,  college NE Tenn 3,  work SE NJ  33,  resides SE Florida 18...  truespel.com






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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2023 2:31 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Turkey is now "Türkiye"

On 5/28/23 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Sat, 27 May 2023 14:33:40 -0700
> From:    Stanton McCandlish<smccandlish at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Turkey is now "Türkiye"
>
> "New"?  I'm in my 50s. I collected stamps as a child, and the ones from
> Turkey said "Türkiye" on them.  I think "Türkiye" is just "Turkey" in
> Turkish and has been the whole time.  Do you mean that there's pressure on
> Western media to now spell it this way (like Bombay becoming Mumbai, and
> Peking becoming Beijing)?


Yes. And my Iranian student, who recently lived in Türkiye, recently
reminded me of the change and corrected me.

What I find interesting is that we (the students and I) still use
"Turkish" as the language name in our conversations.

(And I also find interesting my student's preference for the name
"Persian" over "Farsi" for her language.)

---Amy West

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