Azerbaijani Turkish language
VI. Azerbijani or Trans-Caucasian.
I now cross the main ridge of the Caucasus, and come
in contact with another Turki Language, the Azerbijani or Trans-Caucasian. It
is the language of an important settled population in Trans-Caucasia and
North-West Persia, numbering over 3,000,000. Here we find the descendants of
the old Kizil-Bashi. In large districts of Georgia, in Shirwan, and Karadagh,
on the Western Caspian coast from Resht to Derbent, in the Sirdarlic of Erivan,
in the Persian provinces of Azerbijan, Ghilan, and Mazandaran, this is the
vernacular. It is a peculiar and corrupt form. For philologists it has none of
the value of the more archaic languages, e.g. the Uigur. German missionaries,
stationed in Shusha, about the year 1830, were the first to reduce to paper its
grammatical principles. In this they were assisted by a most able Armenian
linguist, Mirza Ferukh.
M. A. Morrison, The Geographical Distribution of the Modern Túrki
Languages. // Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
Ireland, New Series, Vol. 18,No. 2 (Apr., 1886), pp. 181―182.
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