In 1909, Faig Omar Nemanzadeh wrote: ‘Turks are not alone in seeing barriers to progress in the alphabet. The old European pedagogue, Leibnitz, saw barriers to progress in one type of alphabet, saying “Give me a perfect alphabet, and I’ll give you a perfect language; give me a perfect language, and I’ll give you a perfect civilization.” We also understand that the true barrier to our progress is not only our alphabet, but our alphabet is one of the barriers to our progress. I wonder, are the Japanese and the English satisfied with their alphabets, though having reached the highest level of civilization?’
In 2018, I published this article on early Azeri language reforms at Baku Research Institute:
Robert Denis 