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?
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.
Id say its a bit more, I need azeri speakers to speak slowly there are quite some terms that I need to take an educated guess at. (para=pul for instance)
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? 🙂
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.
