Iranian Turkic alphabet

The Iranian Turkic alphabet of the Iranian Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan is an officially Arabic script and an unofficially Latin script alphabet used for writing the Turkic dialects in Iran.

Officially in Iran, the Arabic script is used to write the Iranian Turkic dialects. While there have been a few standardization efforts, the orthography and the set of letters used differs widely among Iranian Turk writers, with at least two major branches, the orthography used by Behzad Behzadi and the Azari magazine, and the orthography used by the Varlyq magazine (both are quarterlies published in Tehran).

Comparison

Turko-Latin alphabet	Turko-Arabic alphabet	Turko-Cyrillic alphabet
Türkün dili täk sevgili istäkli dil olmaz.	.تۆرکون ديلی تک سئوگيلی ايستکلی ديل اوْلماز	Түркүн дили тәк севгили истәкли дил олмаз.

Transliteration

The Arabic and Latin alphabets each have a different sequence of letters. The table below is ordered according to the latest Latin alphabet:

Azerbaijani Turkic alphabet transliteration table

Latin	Latin (used in Azerbaijan)	Arabic	IPA
Aa	Aa	آ/ ا	[ɑ]
Ää	Əə	ە	[æ]
Bb	Bb	ب	[b]
Cc	Cc	ج	[dz], [dʒ]
Čč	Çç	چ	[ts], [tʃ]
Dd	Dd	د	[d]
Ee	Ee	ئ	[e]
Ff	Ff	ف	[f]
Gg	Gg	گ	[ɟ], [g]
Ǧǧ	Ğğ	غ	[ɣ]
Hh	Hh	ح/ ھ	[h]
Ii	İi	ی	[i]
Jj	Yy	ی	[j]
Kk	Kk	ک	[c], [ç], [k]
Ll	Ll	ل	[l]
Mm	Mm	م	[m]
Nn	Nn	ن	[n]
Ŋŋ		نگ	[ŋ]
Oo	Oo	وْ	[o]
Öö	Öö	ؤ	[ø]
Pp	Pp	پ	[p]
Qq	Qq	ق	[q], [g]
Rr	Rr	ر	[r]
Ss	Ss	ث/ س/ ص	[s]
Šš	Şş	ش	[ʃ]
Tt	Tt	ت/ ط	[t]
Uu	Uu	ۇ	[u]
Üü	Üü	ۆ	[y]
Vv	Vv	و	[v]
Ww		و	[w]
Xx	Xx	خ	[x]
Yy	Iı	ؽ	[ɯ]
Zz	Zz	ذ /ز /ض/ ظ	[z]
Žž	Jj	ژ	[ʒ]
ʼ		ع	[ʔ]
Āā			[ɑ:]
Ēē			[e:]
Īī			[i:]
Ōō			[o:]
Ūū			[u:]

The Turko-Arabic alphabet also contains the letter ݣ or نگ. Originally ݣ or نگ stood for the sound [ŋ], which then merged with [n].

Sources

• Hatcher, Lynley. 2008. Script change in Azerbaijan: acts of identity. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 192:105–116.

External links

• Source: azeri.org
• Azerbaijani alphabet (with video)
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