Re: New team for Iranian Azerbaijani (az_IR)

[Amir Hedayaty <amir bamdad org>]

Gurban M. Tewekgeli wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > > Iranian Azeris has Persian (Farsi) as their second speaking
> > > writing language so fallback to Persian comes quite naturally to
> > > them!
> >
> > Why would they want to fall back to their second speaking/writing 
> > language when they have a chance to fall back to their native one
> > just written with latin? Is latin so disturbing to look at?  I
> > cannot get it.
>
>
> I am comletely agree with Metin,
>
> I am a Turkmen (Iranian Turkmen) and not an Azeri. But I have more
> than 100 Azeri freinds in university. All of them like (love) their
> latin writing system (like all of Iranian Turkmens). Persian/Arabic
> script is completely unable to cover all of Turk languages need.
> Azeri and Turkmen are a vowel based languages and vowels is
> the first missed things in Persian scripting.
>
> Then I think the az_IR:az and tk_IR:tk is the best choice.
> I like hear Metin and Amir.
>
> Sincerely
>
>
> =====
> Gurban M. Tewekgeli
>
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I agree with you Gruban. az_IR is the realy best choise for our locale 
name. The problem raised to our frend Metin should would have happened 
anyway sooner or later.
About Arabic or Latin script: I belived in latin-script till a year ago 
but now I am sure that Arabic script is realy better for us.