Why is the Apostrophe Gone?
It seems to me that it was a mistake to have eliminated the apostrophe in the Latin version. We’ve always used an apostrophe – both in Arabic and Cyrillic – to indicate certain sounds [glottal stops in some words of Arabic origin]. I don’t understand why they took the apostrophe away. Some words require it if you’re going to pronounce them correctly. Photo: The petrol station of Russian-owned LUKOIL had its signage in Azeri Latin and English. Unfortunately, the station was totally demolished by a landslide this spring. Of course, I’m glad that Latin is being adopted now for nearly all of the Turkic-speaking nations [such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tatarstan, Turkey] With few exceptions, all the letters in our Azeri Latin alphabet are identical to Turkish – so it’s a good sign of unity. Few Books in Azeri When I was growing up, I enrolled in the Azeri track at the Institute. My daughter followed my example but my son enrolled in the Russian track. He’s the only one who has never had a
