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Consonant Mutation
- Consonant Mutation
- Changes in pronunciation and spelling of consonants to preserve phonetics and euphony.
The Voicing of Consonants.
A Voiced Consonant is one where the voice box is used to produce the sound d b are in this category.
An Unvoiced Consonant is where the voice is silent and only air is expelled to produce the sound such as t p.
In certain circumstances changes are made to the spelling of consonants.
If the pronunciation of a consonant changes the spelling also changes to reflect this.
English Consonant Change
There is some consonant mutation in English.
The terminal -y of lady changes to an -ie- in the plural ladies
The terminal -f of knife changes to a -v- in the plural knives.
Turkish has consonant change on a larger scale than English.
- Turkish Consonant Change: k to ğ and d to t.
- The main changes that occur in Turkish words is that a terminal -k may change to a -ğ (soft g) when a suffix with a vowel is added.
- The first letter -d of a suffix may change to a -t adding suffixes to
[ç f h k p s ş t]
geç + dim becomes geçtim [geç-tim] I passed - There are also some other minor consonant changes.
Agglutination:
[a “gluing together”]
- Agglutination a “sticking on to”
- The putting together of language particles.
- Each expresses a single definite meaning thus forming a new word.
Suffixes add to the word’s meaning and / or mark its grammatical function.
ev house becomes evlerden [ev-ler-den] from the houses)
In English there are many words which agglutinate (extend) to form other words.
The word argue can be agglutinated to argument by sticking on a -ment suffix.
Further suffixes: -ative giving argumentative
-ly suffix to formargumentatively.
This is the way of Turkish. Words like "in, from, at" are suffixed to nouns to produce an extended word.