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Az)rbaycani

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From: Bruce Robert Gilson
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 11:07
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One of my hobbies is collecting paper
currency from all over the world. I
received in the mail yesterday, from
a dealer in Vilnius, Lithuania, a
number of notes from many countries
of the former Soviet Union.
One of the countries represented was
The one we used to spell Azerbaidzhan
or Azerbaijan. The lettering on the
two notes I got was in Roman letters,
indicating that the country has switched
from Cyrillic to Roman, but I noted
that it was spelled AZ)RBAYCAN (with
a schwa symbol where I put a right
parenthesis). The orthography seems
to be influenced by standard Turkish
(use of C for the "j" sound, a dis-
tinction between dotted and undotted
I) but the schwa is certainly not
used in Turkish orthography. 
Does anyone have any definitive 
information on the alphabet used in
this language now? It obviously in-
cludes two species of I, dotted and
undotted, plus the schwa. Any other
departures from the Roman alphabet
as we use it?
                  Bruce R. Gilson
        (ez-as-pi@cup.portal.com,
         brgilson@highlite.gotham.com)
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From: EZ-as-pi@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Gilson)
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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 92 04:07:49 PDT
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