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Re Roozbeh Pournader's message of 12 Jun 2003:

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>  We tried to look at the Turkish language reform independent of its
> cultural and political aspects, but only linguistically. He had a
> notion that the word "Meem-Heh-Meem-Dal" had somehow become an
> ideograph in the Muslim countries, written the same way from Turkey to
> Indonesia, but pronounced in at least five or six completely different
> ways (Turks pronounce it as "Mehmet" for example). 

Only as a personal name.  The Prophet's name is pronounced Muhammed.

> He was mentioning that the Turks did the script switch and the
> standardization of the pronunciation of the language at the same time.

I don't think the pron. of Turkish has been standardized, exactly.  It's just 
that the orthography reflects educated Istanbul/Ankara speech.

Nigel
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