The Iranian Turkic alphabet of the Iranian Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan is an officially Arabic alphabet and an unofficially Latin alphabet used for writing the Turkic dialects in Iran.
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Officially in Iran, the Arabic alphabet is used to write the Iranian Turkic dialects. While there have been a few standardization efforts, the orthography and the set of letters used differs widely among Iranian Turk writers, with at least two major branches, the orthography used by Behzad Behzadi and the Azari magazine, and the orthography used by the Varlyq magazine (both are quarterlies published in Tehran).
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Transliteration
The Arabic and Latin alphabets each have a different sequence of letters. The table below is ordered according to the latest Latin alphabet:
The Turko-Arabic alphabet also contains the letter ݣ or نگ. Originally ݣ or نگ stood for the sound [ŋ], which then merged with [n].