South Azerbaijani language
South Azerbaijani (also known as South Azeri) is a variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in northwestern Iran and neighboring regions of Iraq and Turkey. Other communities exist in Afghanistan and Syria. Dialects include Aynallu, Karapapakh, Tabriz, Afshari, Shahsavani, Moqaddam, Baharlu, Nafar, Qaragozlu, Pichagchi, Bayat, Qajar. An Arabic script is used to write South Azerbaijani.[3][4][5] South Azerbaijani is influenced by the Persian language.[6] While there is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility between South Azerbaijani and North Azerbaijani, there are also morphological and phonological differences between the two varieties, so much so that Ethnologue considers them to be distinct languages.[7]
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Notes
- ^ "Iran: People", CIA: The World Factbook: 24% of Iran's total population. Retrieved on 22 January 2009.
- ^ http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews
- ^ Jamie Stokes, "Encyclopaedia of the Peoples of Africa and Middle East, Volume 1", Infobase Publishing, 2009. pg 79 "Although Russian- influenced Azeris have used both the Cyrillic and the Roman alphabets, in Iran the Azerbaijani language has always been written in a version of the Arabic script."
- ^ "People of Western Asia, Volume 3", Marshall Cavendish, 2006. pg 124. Quote: "Iranian Azeris speak a Southern version of the Azeri language, which belongs to the Turkic family. They write in the Arabic script, while the northerners use Roman (European) letters"
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.
- ^ L. Johanson, "AZERBAIJAN ix. Iranian Elements in Azeri Turkish" in Encyclopædia Iranica [1]
- ^ ISO 639-3 entry for South Azerbaijani and ISO 639-3 entry for the Azerbaijani
References
Further reading
- Sooman Noah Lee. 1996. "A Grammar of Iranian Azerbaijani," University of Sussex PhD dissertation.
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