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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: Is Turkish a new language?
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In article <3j54nl$ssm@newsbf02.news.aol.com> mithat@aol.com (MITHAT) writes:

>I visited Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and also attended function of
>Azeris. I had no trouble in communicating with them in Turkish. As a
>matter of fact, they themselves called the language they spoke as Turkish.
You mean the language they spoke with you, or the also language they spoke 
among themselves? I suppose they were not doing their best to speak 
"standard" Turkish just for the sake of communicating with you? I wonder how 
the education situation was in these countries until recently, was Turkish 
used is schools, or was it all Russian?

