How intelligible are Turkish and Azeri? I know they are close enough, but I wonder if it similar to Scottish English vs. American English or farther, more like Spanish vs. Portuguese?

cc @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

  • syd
    2·
    10 months ago

    Maybe you’re right 🤔 The Azeri people I interacted had very clear accent than the average. So I guess we can lower the assumption to %70? 🙂

    • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
      32·
      10 months ago

      70% is fair think when theyre talking to me, but if theyre talking with eachother it drops dramatically lol.

      scottish english might be a good analogy. If they talk to someone who only knows plain english they will take that into account, but amongst eachother youd be lucky to get the general gist of the topic at hand.