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South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish): linguistics

South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish) sounds, pronunciation, grammar and core vocabulary.

تۆرکجه

01Sounds

The language’s phonemes, from one published description.

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This section will show the consonant and vowel tables of South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish) from PHOIBLE 2.0, inventory South Azerbaijani (Tabriz) (EA 2259), based on Karimzad and Shosted 2015. PHOIBLE is under CC BY-SA 3.0, and the tables appear once the owner approves the source.

02Grammar at a glance

  • Word order is usually subject, object, verb.
  • Words are built by adding suffixes in a fixed order.
  • Vowel harmony: suffix vowels follow the vowels of the stem.
  • There is no grammatical gender.
  • Nouns take six cases.

To verify

Sources Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. (1998) To verify

03Core words compared

Ten everyday words across the languages of the region.

MeaningPersianKurmanjiSoraniZazakiBalochiAzerbaijaniArmenian
waterآبābavئاوawaweāpsuջուրjur
breadنانnānnanنانnannannānçörəkհացhatsʻ
motherمادرmādardêدایکdaykmayemātanaմայրmayr
fatherپدرpedarbavباوکbawkpîpitataհայրhayr
houseخانهkhānemalماڵmałkeyelōgevտունtun
nightشبshabşevشەوşewşeweshapgecəգիշերgisher
twoدوdoduدووdûdidoikiերկուerku
threeسهsesêسێsêhîrêsēüçերեքerekʻ
eyeچشمcheshmçavچاوçawçimchammgözաչքachkʻ
nameنامnāmnavناوnawnamenāmadանունanun

Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki and Balochi are Iranian languages, and many of their core words are related. Azerbaijani is Turkic and Armenian is its own branch of Indo-European, so their words differ. To verify

Sources Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. (1892) Verified; Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. (2003) To verify; Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. (1966) To verify; Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. (1998) To verify; Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. (2009) To verify; Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. (1998) To verify; Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. (2009) To verify

04Sources

  1. Moran and McCloy (eds.). PHOIBLE 2.0. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2019

    Verified CC BY-SA 3.0 Phoneme inventories, each from the published source it names, read 2026-10-23.

  2. Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. 1998

    To verify

  3. Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. 1892

    Verified Public domain. The digital edition was reachable on 2026-10-23.

  4. Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. 2003

    To verify

  5. Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. 1966

    To verify

  6. Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. 1998

    To verify

  7. Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. 2009

    To verify

  8. Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. 2009

    To verify

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Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish): Linguistics. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/azb/linguistics/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish): Linguistics.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/azb/linguistics/.

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05Research and sources

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  1. Design and preliminary validation of a comprehensive Azerbaijani-Turkish language development test (ATLDT) for children aged 3-7 years: A methodological study.

    Abbasi H, Ahadi H, Fekar Gharamaleki F et al. · 2026 · Appl Neuropsychol Child

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  2. Acquisition Sequence of Grammatical Structures in Azerbaijani-Turkish-speaking Children Aged 4-6 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study.

    Masumi J, Gharamaleki FF, Fathipour-Azar Z et al. · 2026 · Int J Lang Commun Disord

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  3. Is Azerbaijani Turkish an Endangered Language? Language Attitudes among Azerbaijani Youth in Tabriz

    Naser Nouri · 2015 · Theory and Practice in Language Studies

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  4. The Role of Azerbaijani Turkish in Safavid Iran

    Willem Floor, Hasan Javadi · 2013 · Iranian Studies

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  5. Turkish-Azerbaijani relations

    Elnur Soltanov · 2016 · Turkish-Azerbaijani Relations

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  6. Azerbaijani/Azeri Turkish speech development

    Talieh Zarifian, Akram Ahmadi, Fatemeh Fekar-Gharamaleki · 2026 · Oxford University PressOxford

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  7. Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Validation of the Azerbaijani-Turkish Version of the Voice Symptom Scale (AT-VoiSS).

    Fekar Gharamaleki F, Ghorbani E, Ahadi J et al. · 2025 · J Voice

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  8. Pegi1727/DIINA-ASR-Dynamic-Inhibition-Induced-Neural-Architecture-for-Under-Resourced-Languages: DIINA: Dynamic Inhibition-Induced Neural Architecture – A Comparative ASR Analysis of Scottish Gaelic and South Azerbaijani (ICPLA 2027)

    Pegah Merrikhi · 2026 · Zenodo

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  9. THE ROLE OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS IN TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY AT THE CURRENT STAGE: TURKISH-AZERBAIJANI RELATIONS

    2023 · Vostokovedenie i afrikanistika

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  10. Copied passives in Southern Azerbaijani, Northern Azerbaijani and Turkish

    Hossein Hashemi · 2015 · Ankara Papers in Turkish and Turkic Linguistics

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  11. Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10): Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Azerbaijani-Turkish Version.

    Mirahadi SS, Ghazani SM, Fekar Gharamaleki F · 2025 · J Voice

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  12. Azerbaijani-Turkish Literary Relations Present and Past

    Tofiq Abdulhasanov · 2019 · Elsevier BV

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