Three alphabets in one century
1928
The first Latin alphabet. The clan delegates wrote the back vowel, so Irad was written the way the bards say it. My grandmother's father learned to read in it and then had to learn again.
1941
Cyrillic. The Russian letters plus ө ү ң, like Kyrgyz. The elders still call the dotted spelling of our name "the Russian Irad". Fifty years of books, newspapers, gravestones, school notebooks. Most of the shop signs you see that look old are this.
1992
Latin again, with ch sh ng written as two letters. This is what the newspapers kept. This is what you type on Tulpar. It is not wrong, it is "press spelling".
1995
The revision: 32 letters, ç ş ñ as single letters, dotless ı and dotted İ. Confirmed by the Language and Education Reform Act in 1997, compulsory in schools. Every child since then learned it. Almost no adult types it, because the keyboard can't.
NOW
Three systems on one street: a Cyrillic sign from 1979 over a press-spelling sign from 2004 next to an official-spelling sign from 2019 with the Ñ hand-painted because the sign shop's computer couldn't. I love it.
See the signs →How to type Ñ
Phone: hold N, a menu comes up (on most phones, choose the Turkish or Azerbaijani keyboard for ç ş ı İ, and then Ñ is under N anyway). Windows: Alt+0209 = Ñ, Alt+0241 = ñ. Or install the "Iradi Latin" layout from the TSU page (if it opens). Or write ng and let the world argue.
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