How is one supposed to pronounce Uighur? In News fromTartary Peter Fleming called them Turki, which is not only a lot easier to say but also (I think) tells us something about their language.languagehat says August 9, 2014 at 11:28 am WEE-gur, rhymes with Pete Seeger. And “Turki...
For instance, we know that people write words in the way that they want to pronounce them, due to a simple letter-to-phoneme mapping. However, pronunciation may vary significantly due to accents or personal habits, leading to uncertainty in word forms. This has caused serious problems in ...