History and evolution Azerbaijani language

garden of pleasures fuzûlî in azerbaijani.

azerbaijani evolved eastern branch of oghuz turkic ( western turkic ) spread caucasus, in eastern europe, , northern iran, in western asia, during medieval turkic migrations. persian , arabic influenced language, arabic words transmitted through intermediary of literary persian. azerbaijani is, perhaps after uzbek, turkic language upon persian , other iranian has exerted strongest impact—mainly in phonology, syntax , vocabulary, less in morphology.

turkic language of azerbaijan gradually supplanted iranian languages in northern iran, , variety of languages of caucasus , iranian languages spoken in caucasus, particularly udi , old azeri. beginning of 16th century, had become dominant language of region, , spoken language in court of safavids , afsharids.

the historical development of azerbaijani can divided 2 major periods: (c. 16th 18th century) , modern (18th century present). azerbaijani differs descendant in contained larger number of persian, , arabic loanwords, phrases , syntactic elements. writings in azerbaijani demonstrate linguistic interchangeability between oghuz , kypchak elements in many aspects (such pronouns, case endings, participles, etc.). azerbaijani gradually moved being merely language of epic , lyric poetry being language of journalism , scientific research, literary version has become more or less unified , simplified loss of many archaic turkic elements, stilted iranisms , ottomanisms, , other words, expressions, , rules failed gain popularity among azerbaijani masses.

between c. 1900 , 1930, there several competing approaches unification of national language in azerbaijan republic, popularized scholars such hasan bey zardabi , mammad agha shahtakhtinski. despite major differences, aimed @ making easy semi-literate masses read , understand literature. criticized overuse of persian, arabic, , european elements in both colloquial , literary language , called simpler , more popular style.

the russian conquest of transcaucasia in 19th century split language community across 2 states; soviet union promoted development of language, set considerably 2 successive script changes – persian latin , cyrillic script – while iranian azerbaijanis continued use persian script had. despite wide use of azerbaijani in azerbaijan soviet socialist republic, became official language of azerbaijan in 1956. after independence, azerbaijan republic decided switch latin script.