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Turks in Azerbaijan, or Turkish Azerbaijanis, (Turkish: Azerbaycan'daki Türkler) refers to ethnic Turkish people who live in the Republic of Azerbaijan.The community is largely made of Ottoman Turkish descendants who have lived in Azerbaijan for centuries, as well as the Turkish Meskhetian community which arrived in large numbers during Soviet rule.
In Azerbaijani language publications, the expression "Azerbaijani nation" referring to those who were known as Tatars of the Caucasus first appeared in the newspaper Kashkul in 1880. [72] During the early Soviet period, the term "Transcaucasian Tatars" was supplanted by "Azerbaijani Turks" and ultimately "Azerbaijanis."
Only in the 11th century, when Oghuz Turkic tribes under the Seljuk dynasty entered the country, did Azerbaijan acquire a significant number of Turkic inhabitants. The original Persian population became fused with the Turks, and gradually the Persian language was supplanted by a Turkic dialect that evolved into the distinct Azerbaijani language ...
As Azerbaijani gradually moved from being merely a language of epic and lyric poetry to being also a language of journalism and scientific research, its literary version has become more or less unified and simplified with the loss of many archaic Turkic elements, stilted Iranisms and Ottomanisms, and other words, expressions, and rules that ...
In 1866, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army in Dagestan, A. V. Komarov, wrote that Azerbaijani Turks were composed of Turkic tribes and spoke the Turki-Azerbaijani language. According to Komarov's report, Azerbaijani Turks at that time lived in 29 localities in Dagestan, with a total population of 18,250.
According to 2019 research, English language proficiency in Azerbaijan was the lowest among the European countries surveyed. [9] An entire issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, edited by Jala Garibova, was devoted to the matter of languages and language choices in Azerbaijan, vol. 198 in 2009. [10]
Azerbaijani-language surnames (111 P) Pages in category "Azerbaijani words and phrases" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The language arrived with the invasion and settlement of waves of Turkic tribes from Central Asia over several centuries. The indigenous language of the region around the Aras was a mixture of Iranian Tati, Talyshi, and Armenian; Talyshi is still spoken in parts of Azerbaijan. With the increasing dominance of Turkic rulers, the region's ...