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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?

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[–] syd@lemy.lol 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

It is like British and American English.

I can understand 80-90% of Azeri from either directly from words or context of the sentence. Azeri sounds more accented too.

I really don’t know the Scottish English so I’m not sure if its better fit.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I really don’t know the Scottish English

If you think American v. British are at 80-90%, Scottish is around 30% and that's being generous 🙂

[–] syd@lemy.lol 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I learned English from mostly American sources and I can barely understand Brit English :) It’s not just words, the accent makes it harder too. I guess I would never understand Scottish one then.

The Turkish/Azeri situation is close to this, at least for me.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For a native speaker British and American English are probably at least 99% intelligible for the main dialects, though there are some regional accents that are less. Scottish is usually mostly intelligible but I’ve heard some Irish ones where I can only catch a few words here and there.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

There's I think a Tom Scott video where he interviewed someone with just the absolute thickest accent in a little Irish village, and he needed a translator from the village to mediate.

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