Last week I started a new blog series on languages, back then I covered topic about Georgian language. Today I would like to make some highlights of Azerbaijani language.If you would like to learn more about Azerbaijani translation, please request a free quote!Azerbaijani or Azeri, also known as Azeri Turkish or Azerbaijani Turkish, is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who are concentrated mainly in the South Caucasus.The language has official status in Azerbaijan and Dagestan (a federal subject of Russia), and is also spoken to varying degrees in Iran (especially Iranian Azerbaijan), Georgia, Iraq, and Turkey.History of Azerbaijani languageAccording to Wikipedia Azerbaijani languages evolved from the Eastern Oghuz branch of Western (Oghuz) Turkic which spread to the Caucasus, in Eastern Europe, and northern Iran, in Western Asia, during the medieval Turkic migrations, and has been heavily influenced by Persian. Arabic also influenced the language, but Arabic words were mainly transmitted through the intermediary of literary Persian.The historical development of Azerbaijani can be divided into two major periods: early (c. 16th to 18th century) and modern (18th century to present). Early Azerbaijani differs from its descendant in that it contained a much larger number of Persian, and Arabic loanwords, phrases and syntactic elements. Early writings in Azerbaijani also demonstrate linguistic interchangeability between Oghuz and Kypchak elements in many aspects (such as pronouns, case endings, participles, etc.). 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 failed to gain popularity among the Azerbaijani-speaking masses.LiteratureClassical literature in Azerbaijani was formed in the fifteenth century based on the various Early Middle Ages dialects of Tabriz and Shirvan (these dialects were used by classical Azerbaijani writers Nasimi, Fuzuli, and Khatai). Modern literature in Azerbaijan is based on the Shirvani dialect mainly, while in Iran it is based on the Tabrizi one. The first newspaper in Azerbaijani, Əkinçi was published in 1875.Trusted Azerbaijani translationsAzerbaijan is our primary market for language translations and we hire only the best Azerbaijani translation specialists available on market . We have a strong expertise for Azerbaijani translation services in the following fields: Legal translation, Financial translation, Technical translation, Medical translation Find a full list of our translation expertise for Azerbaijani languageIf you would like to learn more about Azerbaijani translation, please request a free quote!
