On 05/01/2004 15:29, Kenneth Whistler wrote:I found the attached, from the Summer 1997 issue of Azerbaijan International magazine, which clearly shows the "soft sign".
...I did have a dictionary in this orthography, from about 1929, but unfortunately I left it in Baku. I expect to visit again in May. If I have time I will search out materials in the old Latin script, which sometimes appear in second hand book stalls.
Somebody probably needs to go to Baku to dig out actual printed materials from the 20's and 30's to make an assessment of actual usage.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
Azerbaijan alphabets3.zip
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