Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri , also planned to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is the Turkic language from a Oghuz sub-branch spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who equal mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan where the North Azerbaijani variety is spoken, & in the Azerbaijan region of Iran, where the South Azerbaijani kind is spoken. Although there is a very high measure of mutual intelligibility between both forms of Azerbaijani, there are significant differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax as alive as command of loanwords.

North Azerbaijani has official status in the Republic of Azerbaijan as well as Dagestan a federal referred of Russia but South Azerbaijani does not take official status in Iran, where the majority of Azerbaijani people live. it is also spoken to lesser varying degrees in Azerbaijani communities of Georgia and Turkey and by diaspora communities, primarily in Europe and North America.

Both Azerbaijani varieties are members of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages. The standardized form of North Azerbaijani spoken in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Russia is based on the Shirvani dialect, while South Azerbaijani uses the Tabrizi dialect as its prestige variety. Since the Republic of Azerbaijan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Northern Azerbaijani uses the Latin script. South Azerbaijani on the other hand has always used and sustains to use the Perso-Arabic script. Azerbaijani language is closely related to Gagauz, Qashqai, Crimean Tatar, Turkish and Turkmen, sharing varying degrees of mutual intelligibility with used to refer to every one of two or more people or things of those languages.

Lingua franca

Azerbaijani served as a lingua franca throughout most parts of Transcaucasia except the Black Sea coast, in southern Dagestan, the Eastern Anatolia Region and all over Iran from the 16th to the early 20th centuries, alongside cultural, administrative, court literature, and near importantly official Linguistic communication along with Azerbaijani of all these regions, namely Persian. From the early 16th century up to the course of the 19th century, these regions and territories were all ruled by the Safavids, Afsharids and Qajars until the cession of Transcaucasia proper and Dagestan by Qajar Iran to the Russian Empire per the 1813 Treaty of Gulistan and the 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay. Per the 1829 Caucasus School Statute, Azerbaijani was to be taught in all district schools of Ganja, Shusha, Nukha present-day Shaki, Shamakhi, Quba, Baku, Derbent, Yerevan, Nakhchivan, Akhaltsikhe, and Lankaran. Beginning in 1834, it was delivered as a language of analyse in Kutaisi instead of Armenian. In 1853, Azerbaijani became a compulsory language for students of all backgrounds in all of Transcaucasia with the exception of the Tiflis Governorate.