pronunciation of 'Sonra'
Hi, I have a question about the pronunciation of "Sonra." When speaking Turkish at normal speed, not in instruction mode, do you drop the pronunciation of 'n' when saying phrases like "sabah kalktıktan sonra su içiyorum," "dersten sonra," etc? Every time I listen to those phrases, I hear "sora"...
Thank you :)

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I will give you an example from Korean pronunciation again :) when you guys say "안녕" fast, "ㄴ" can't be heard clearly. It's the same when you pronounce "sonra", "n" still exist but not very clear. It also can be pronounced as "soora"

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In standart Turkish (instructional mode or not) it is pronounced same as the
written form. Sonra.

But in some dialects and sometimes in faster speech people tend to morph N into A. So its like Soora.

This N morphing is not common. I couldn't come up with another example of it. For the word sanrı we don't morph n into a. Maybe this has something to do with rounded vowels ( ı is unrounded but both a and o are rounded).

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