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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:12:19AM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I've seen some Azerbaijani names and words but don't know how to
> > pronounce them. I've searched for a pronunciation guide but couldn't
> > find anything. Does anyone know about the orthography and phoneme
> > inventory (or anything else about Azeri phonology)?
>
> Azerbaijani is essentially the same as Turkish.
See the PDF document here: http://xrl.us/bo2g

(The full link is
http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/13_folder/13_articles/kurtulush_azeri_turkish_13.pdf)

Title: A Comparison of Modern Azeri with Modern Turkish

It notes, for instance, that the Azeri alphabet has three more letters
than the Turkish; the extras are q, x, and ə (schwa).

According to a brief web search, Turkish pronunciation is something like this:

a [a]
â [ja]
b [b]
c [dZ)]
ç [tS)]
d [d]
e [E]
f [f]
g [g]
ğ silent - lengthens the preceding vowel
h [h]
i [i]
ı [V] or [@]   (that's a dotless i)
j [Z]
k [k]
l [l]
m [m]
n [n]
ö [2]
o [o]
p [p]
r [4]
s [s]
ş [S]
t [t]
u [u]
ü [y]
v [B] (sometimes spelled <w> in foreign words)
y [j]
z [z]



>
> Please do not hit me if you know better. :-) I just know that a woman
> that I know from northern Iran, who (apart from Farsi) speaks
> Azerbaijani, can talk to Turkish people without any audible (to my
> ear) difference.
>
> That does not mean much, of cause. :-)
>
> What are the words?
>
> Anyway: if you find nothing about Azerbaijani, search for a Turkish
> phoneme guide and possibly apply some reasonable fixes.  I'll probably
> be quite close.
>
> Bye,
>   Henrik
>
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