>>>What's a 'voiced velar frictive'? Is it like the scottish 'ch' in 'loch'? In that case an english spelling of 'yoghurt' would be more likely to give the original pronounciation....
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>>Hi Viv,
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>>I don't know "loch" but, it similar like "gh" in "bought". You cannot spell in english exactly because we emphase "r" in turkish different from in english.
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>loch is like clearing the throat before you do a big spit, like German "buch" :-)

Okey I understand now. "ğ" is not about throat. In turkish we don't use throat so much... That's interesting "ğ"cannot be use alone. It need to another letter to use.