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In article <68674@cup.portal.com> EZ-as-pi@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Gilson) writes:

> 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

The Azerbayjani dialect has an extra sound which is halfway 
between an 'e' (eh) in Turkish an an O (=o with umlauts).
They invented the backward e (schwa) to signify this
sound.


> 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?

It has all the Turkish letters, I think, except 
the soft g (g with a bar on top). In addition
they have a q (harsh k), and x (kh).

There are eight Turkish vowels, split into two
classes {A,O,U,I} and {E,"O,"U, i} where the second
set is like the first except it has umlauts or dots
(except for E). The I (undotted i) is the English schwa.

The umlauted-o is the u in urge. There is no umlauted-u
in English.
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	mark	


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