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Alphabet in Transition
Autumn 1993 (AI
1.3)
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Front Cover: Alphabet Transition from Cyrillic
to Latin. Design - Pirouz Khanlou
Back Cover: City scape in "Ichari Shahar"
(Inner City) Baku. Photo - Pirouz Khanlou
In December 1991, Azerbaijan's
Parliament officially adopted a new Latin-based
alphabet to replace
Cyrillic. It was one of their first official moves to disassociate
themselves with the former Soviet Union. Read about the complexities
a nation faces when adopting a new script.
Check out the difficulties of designing an alphabet for computers
and satellites in Editor's
Nightmare: The Upside-Down 'e.' This is the fourth time this century that Azerbaijan
has modified its alphabet.
4 Editorial - Betty Blair
6 Baku
Diary: Discovering Baku
- Susan Cornnell
7 Visas for Azerbaijan
9 Reader's
Forum - "Where
is Azerbaijan?" Doonesbury (comic strip) - G.B. Trudeau
10 Alphabet
in the Boiling Pot of Politics - Abulfazl Bahadori
14 Why
I Don't Know Azerbaijani
- Natasha Trishkova
15 Why I
Had to Learn Russian
- Azar Mammad
16 Dissolution
of the Soviet Union: The Question of Alphabet Reform for the
Turkic Republics
- Dr. András Bodrogligeti
18 A
Comparison of Modern Azeri with Modern Turkish - Dr. Kurtulus Öztopçu
(PDF file, 104 k)
20 Azerbaijani:
Language of a Divided Nation: The Differences Between the North and South -
Habib Azarsina and Naida Mamedova (PDF file, 76 k)
22 Ambassador Seeks US Pressure Against Armenian Aggression
(Letter to Secretary of State Warren Christopher) - Ambassador
Hafiz Pashayev
23 War in the Caucasus and the Resulting Refugees - Nagorno-Karabakh
War Spirals Citizens into Misery: National Public Radio - Mike
Shuster
24 Azerbaijan's Ambassador to UN Pleas with International Community
to Halt Armenian Aggression - Ambassador to U.N.- Hassan Hassanov
25 UN Resolution 853 (1993): Regarding the Armenian / Azerbaijani
Confict, UN Security Council, July 29, 1993
26 Open Letter: The MacNeil / Lehrer Report - Azeri-American
Community in Washington, D.C.
27 Television
Interview: Heydar Aliyev, July 6, 1993
28 Remembering Shahriyar: "Greetings,
Heydar Baba"
- English Translation of poem: Dr. Hassan Javadi. In Azeri Latin,
page 29.
30 Interview:
Azerbaijani Cinema - Rasim Ojagov - (In English) Pirouz Khanlou
31 (In Azeri Latin)
33 History
of Azerbaijani Publications
in Southern Azerbaijan (Part 3)
(Azeri in Arabic Script) - Dr. Hassan Javadi and Abulfazl Bahadori
37 Edinborough Youth Festival
40 Azeri
Alphabet: The Upside-Down "e": An Editor's Nightmare - Betty Blair
42 Directory of Azerbaijani Organizations
From Azerbaijan
International
(1.3) September 1993
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