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Azerbaijani is the sole official language of Azerbaijan and is spoken by the majority of its population. However, several minority languages also exist in the country, including Lezgian, Talysh, Avar, Russian, and Tat. Additionally, languages such as Tsakhur and Khinalug are spoken by a small percentage of the population.
The Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR published a one-volume dictionary named Dialectological Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language in 1964, which covered more than six thousand words. At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the Dictionary of the Dialects of the Azerbaijani language was published.
The Turkic language of Azerbaijan gradually supplanted the Iranian languages in what is now northwestern Iran, and a variety of languages of the Caucasus and Iranian languages spoken in the Caucasus, particularly Udi and Old Azeri. By the beginning of the 16th century, it had become the dominant language of the region.
Ann explanatory dictionary of toponyms of Azerbaijani origin on the territory of western Azerbaijan and Georgia was compiled by Azerbaijani scientists – G. Geybullaev and B. Budagov. [8] President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed decrees on 5 February 2008 and 26 April 2012, aimed at a comprehensive study of the country's cultural monuments. [9]
Azerbaijani names include names with Turkic (e.g. Turkish name), Germanic, Slavic, Persian, [5] Arabic [6] and Caucasian origin. [7] There are several published onomastic dictionaries in Azerbaijani including more than 15,000 names. However, there are officially recorded 180,000 different names in registrar of Ministry of Justice. [8]
Azeri, is split up into two distinct languages. [32] North Azerbaijani (based on the Shirvan dialect and spoken in the Republic of Azerbaijan [33]) and South Azerbaijani (based on the Tabriz dialect and spoken in Iranian Azerbaijan [34]) Both sublanguages are Oghuz languages (a sub-branch of the Turkic languages) and are mutually intelligible ...
Azerbaijan, [a] officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, [b] is a transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. [10] It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south.
Page from the "Tatar chrestomathy of Azerbaijani dialect" by Mirza Shafi Vazeh. Azerbaijani literature (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan ədəbiyyatı, آذربایجان ادبیاتی) is written in Azerbaijani, a Turkic language, which is the official state language of the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the North Azerbaijani variety is spoken.