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?
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?
I don’t know about your actual question, just wanted to point out that Spanish and Portuguese are very close, you might want to use a different example, like Spanish and Italian or French, which are somewhat similar but different enough. For a Spanish speaker to understand Portuguese (and vice-versa) all you need is to ask the other person to speak slowly for you to have time to process it, but they’re almost entirely understandable.
Source: I’m an Argentinian (Spanish speaking country) that went to live on Brazil (Portuguese speaking country). I speak both languages fluently today, but even the first time I heard Portuguese I could understand 99% of what was said.