# Turkish orthography **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 3, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-orthography/534811 "2010-04-03T06:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-orthography/534811/1 "2010-04-03T06:51:09Z")
The Turkish alphabet includes a dotted capital “i,” used in such words as “Istanbul.” This distinguishes the sounds “ee” and short “i,” which sounds somewhat like the Russian “yeri.” (This short “i” appears in the phrase _konusmaarim türkçe,_ “I don’t speak Turkish.”) But what I want to know is whether the dotted capital and dotted lower-case letter have the same sound, or the dotted capital has the same sound as the undotted lower-case “i.” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-orthography/534811/2 "2010-04-03T07:32:21Z")
The dotted capital and dotted lower-case have the same sound, as do the dotless capital and lower-case. [Tittle - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_dotted_and_dotless_I) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-orthography/534811/3 "2010-04-04T07:57:24Z")
Thanx 🙂