Is the sound “ISS-tahn-bull” more or less the sound that a Turk would make when naming his/her city?
INB4 “Not Constantinople”
İstanbul. Note the dotted i.
IPA: [isˈtanbuɫ], roughly the same as English. First i is more of a long “ee” sound. The last character is a dark l, so pronounce l like a 4 year old.
Says also: [ɯsˈtambuɫ]. That first character doesn’t really work in English.
In Turkish, it is accented on the second syllable, whose vowel is pronounced like the A in “father”.
Learn to use the Google translator, which has an icon to produce the audio of most languages.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Old New York was once New Amsterdam… ♫
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by. (Ooops, that was the next track.)