Talk:Azerbaijani alphabet

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W was never mentioned, and not many people evem mention about the W. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bug2266 (talk • contribs) 14:45, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

message: This page was created as an orphan and needs synch up with the alphabets section of Azerbaijani language. The latter article refers to several alphabets - this article shows only two. I do not speak Azerbaijani so I can't work out how the two articles can be reconciled.  --Cje 08:53, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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message: U as in "Put" something down.
U as in "Put" a golf ball.
"Put" is ambiguous!
Try U as in "Up"?
Try U as in "Foot"?
Tabletop 10:17, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  U as in what 

message: This article variously gives the date of origin of the Latin Azerbaijani alphabet as 1918, 1922, and 1929. So which is it really?
I have not found any shred of evidence that it actually began in 1918. Perhaps someone assumed that the date of Azerbaijan's independence must have coincided with the introduction of the new alphabet. I think this date can be tossed away.
The date I'd always heard for latinized Azerbaijani was 1922. I'd need to look in more sources for a cite, but I'm pretty sure that's when it was officially introduced (in the no-longer independent Soviet republic). 
Although 1929 saw the birth of the Unified Turkic Alphabet, clearly the latinized Azerbaijani alphabet predated both it and the Turkish alphabet introduced in 1928. In fact, according to histories I seem to remember reading, Azerbaijanis were the main force driving the latinization of Turkic alphabets. I started looking into this just now because I found an assertion in the dotless ı article that the Azerbaijani alphabet was derived from the Turkish one, when it was the other way around. Azerbaijani came first; Atatürk and the Türk Dil Kurumu would have had to study it and its implementation by their neighbor as a model for Turkey. The Unified Turkic Alphabet, although finally developed by 1929, was proposed by a conference in Baku in 1926, predating the latinization of Turkish in 1928 and all the rest circa 1930.
This article would do well to give more historical background on the Turkic latinization movement which began in the late 19th century and was mainly driven by Azerbaijanis. I don't have the sources at hand to look this up right now. Someone with a sound knowledge of the history of the subject is needed to edit this article. Thank you. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 16:45, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion on dates 

message: Why did they choose to use the Yugoslav letter Ј instead of the letters Й/ЕЁЮЯ and Э? FokkerTISM 07:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably for simplicity of letterform. Ё was never in, and using letters Е, Ю and Я was causing confusion with similar syllables written as Йо, Йə, Йи, Йө, Йү and Йы. Letter Э had become redundant when E vanished from beginning of words. 178.49.18.203 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 06:11, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yugoslav letter J in Azerbaijani Cyrillic 

message: In the transliteration table, the lower-case Latin B, 1933-1939, (IPA [b]) is given as a small capital B instead of b, looking just like the Cyrillic lower-case B (IPA [v]). Is this an error? If so, it needs to be fixed. If it was really done this way, it needs to have attention drawn to it by an explicit comment, since it's different from all the other Latin versions.69.135.193.98 (talk) 19:24, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower-case Latin B, 1933-1939 

message: History and development lists Turkic alphabets were used beginning in 1922, which is supported by the Perso-Arabic alphabet in Comparison listing its ending as 1922. Why is Turkic alphabet then listed as starting in 1933 instead of 1922? Were there two different Turkic alphabets, 1922-1929 and 1929-1939? I tried to correct this seeming obvious error, and was reverted.
71.231.105.148 (talk) 21:21, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  More confusion on dates