Karbalai Tabrizi, Hussein.
[23][30] A sample of one these poems, رُورُم پَری بجولان Azeri language is spoken by approximately 40 million people worldwide, 20 million of which live in Iran, 8 million in Azerbaijan, 2.5 million in Turkey, 2 million in Russia, another 2 million in other CIS countries, over 1 million in USA, and around 5 million in Europe, Middle East and Arab countries, as well as Japan and Austria. [35], The 17th-century Ottoman Turkish traveler Evliya Chelebi who traveled to Safavid Iran also states: "The majority of the women in Maragheh converse in Pahlavi". There are, then, different languages such as Pahlavi, Dari, Azari, as well as other Persian languages. (ed. ژژور منشی چو بخت اهون قدریوه Azerbaijani or Azeri is the term that is used interchangeably for the language throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Suffice it to say that the number of records and documents from Azerbaijan in the Pahlavi language are so numerous that there is little doubt that this was indeed the native tongue of Azerbaijan before the arrival of the Turks. Hamzeh (893-961 CE) explains these dialects in the following way:[14]. The vocabulary of the natives of Balkh was dominant in this language, which includes the dialects of the eastern peoples. It is often set to music and performed by leading Azerbaijani artists. It is partly Dari and partly convoluted (monqaleq) and all of them are named Persian". Al-Khwarizmi also mentions this in Chapter 6, Vol. The nightingale is on top of the flower like a minstrel who has lost her/his heart, It bemoans sometimes in Parsi (Persian) and sometimes in Dari (Khurasani Persian), There are extant words, phrases, sentences and poems attested in the old Iranian dialect of Tabriz in a variety of books and manuscripts. ابن ندیم، محمد بن اسحاق: «فهرست»، ترجمهی رضا تجدد، انتشارات ابن سینا، 1346 [6], Old Azeri was spoken in most of Azerbaijan at least up to the 17th century, with the number of speakers decreasing since the 11th century due to the Turkification of the area. همه پیغمبران خُو بی و چو کِی A. Sadeqi, "Ash'ar-e mahalli-e Jame' al-alHaann", Majalla-ye zaban-shenasi 9, 1371./1992, pp. Here is an in-depth guide to Turkic-based languages: To fully understand the Azerbaijani language, it’s important to look back at the nation’s history. Currently the Latin script is used. Tahuri publishers, 1957. In addition, Old Azeri is known to have strong affinities with Talysh. Inevitably, this was a significant point in the evolution of Azeri.
Turkic speakers wandered into modern-day Azerbaijan territory in the 7th century before invading in the 11th. Today, the language sounds similar to modern Turkish and uses the Latin script with a series of accents in the written form. 198 in 2009.
Etymological studies also further indicate that current dialects spoken from Baku through Khalkhal to Semnan, all originated from a common source. Al-Moqaddasi, Shams ad-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Ahsan al-Taqasi fi Ma’rifa al-Aqalim, Translated by Ali Naqi Vaziri, Volume one, First Edition, Mu’alifan and Mutarjiman Publishers, Iran, 1981, pg 377 Old Azeri (Persian: آذری کهن), also referred to as Azeri, Azari or Adhari (Persian: آذری Āḏarī [ɑːzæri]), is the extinct Iranian language that was once spoken in Azerbaijan (historic Azerbaijan, also known as Iranian Azerbaijan) before the Turkification of the Azeris.