Re: New team for Iranian Azerbaijani (az_IR)

[Metin Amiroff <metin karegen com>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> Official?! Would you please provide a source for that? Who has the
> authority to make an alphabet official for a language all over the
> world?!

Noone has the authority actually, but there must be the "default" one.

The official language (imho) is the one which can be at least read by 
all Azeris over the world, in this case it is definetely Latin. Say, you 
are writing a letter to an Azeri person who was born and lives in China. 
Would you write that in persian or latin alphabet? That makes latin 
dominant over persian in usage between Azeris over the world. Actually 
persian never was considered as an option, there was a war between 
cyrillic and latin :)

See, I can write Russian text in latin or other way I want, and the fact 
that the official alphabet is cyrillic cannot stop me. This will only 
come in use when exchanging official documents and stuff.

Anyways, that meant to be just a small note, but unfortunately grew to a 
big misunderstanding :(


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Metin