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John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Fri Apr 11 18:22:07 CEST 2003
Michael Everson scripsit:
> >az *was* written in Arabic in Azerbaijan. No longer.
>
> And a long time ago, too.
1924 is hardly antiquity. People now living still remember the event.
And are we to suppose that not one single document survived Stalin's
abominable book-burners?
In addition,
http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai101_folder/101_articles/101_rafraf.html
claims that the use of az-latn in Iran is not unknown, and in fact that
most Azeri-speaking Iranians understand it.
--
John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan at reutershealth.com
In might the Feanorians / that swore the unforgotten oath
brought war into Arvernien / with burning and with broken troth.
and Elwing from her fastness dim / then cast her in the waters wide,
but like a mew was swiftly borne, / uplifted o'er the roaring tide.
--the Earendillinwe
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