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Azerbaijani-language road sign. North Azerbaijani, [3] or Northern Azerbaijani, is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It is closely related to modern-day Istanbul Turkish, the official language of Turkey.
The primary and official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, [1] [2] a Turkic language closely related to and partially mutually intelligible with Modern Turkish. [3] Together with Turkish, Turkmen and Gagauz, Azerbaijani is a member of Oghuz branch of southwestern group Turkic language family. [4]
The first comparative analysis of the Turkic (Azerbaijani) dialects was carried out by Mirza Kazimbey in his 1839 book The General Grammar of the Turkish – Tatar Language. [13] During 1924 - 1930, Soviet researchers collected some 60 thousand dialect words. The program was prepared to compile a comprehensive dictionary. N.I. Ashari led this ...
The period from 1991 to 2001 was declared the transitional period, when both Latin and Cyrillic alphabet were accepted. Since 2001, the Azerbaijani Latin alphabet is the official alphabet of the Azerbaijani language in the Republic of Azerbaijan. [11] [12] From 1922 until 1933 (old alphabet defined using the Latin script):
The official language is Azerbaijani, a Turkic language. Approximately 92% of the national population speak it as their mother tongue. [268] Russian and Armenian (only in Nagorno-Karabakh) are still spoken in Azerbaijan. Each is the mother tongue of around 1.5% of the national population. [268]
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."
Azerbaijani-language surnames (111 P) T. Translators from Azerbaijani (9 P) W. Azerbaijani words and phrases (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Azerbaijani language"
According to the German philologist Gerhard Doerfer, the Yerevan dialect belongs to Southern group of Azerbaijani language, along with the Nakhichevan and Ordubad dialects. [1] The Azerbaijani philologist Memmedaghi Shiraliyev also places it in the Southern group to which he also adds the Tabriz dialect. [2] [3]