Azerbaijani - Azerbaijani (English spelling)

Japanese: アゼルバイジャン語 - あぜるばいじゃんご(英語表記)Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani - Azerbaijani (English spelling)

One of the Turkic languages. Spoken by approximately 6.77 million people (1989) in the Republic of Azerbaijan (west coast of the Caspian Sea) and over 8 million people in northwestern Iran. It is closely related to Turkish in the Republic of Turkey, and can be spoken to a fairly high degree. There are four dialects in Azerbaijan, but the orthography is based on the eastern dialect centered on the capital, Baku. From the 11th century until 1929, it was written in Arabic-Persian characters, but then it was converted to the Latin alphabet, which continued until 1939. After that, it was written in Russian characters (Cyrillic), and then the Latin alphabet was adopted. The grammatical structure and word order are very similar to Japanese.

[Kazuo Takeuchi]

[References] | Turkic languages

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

トルコ系諸言語の一つ。アゼルバイジャン共和国(カスピ海西岸)で約677万人(1989)、イラン北西部で約800万人以上が使用している。トルコ共和国のトルコ語とごく近い関係にあり、かなりの程度に会話ができる。アゼルバイジャンでは四つの方言があるが、首都バクーを中心とした東部方言を基礎とした正書法が行われている。11世紀以来1929年まではアラビア・ペルシア文字によって表記されていたが、その後ラテン文字化が進み、1939年まで続いた。その後はロシア文字(キリル文字)を経てラテン文字の正書法が採用されている。文法構造や語順は日本語とよく似ている。

[竹内和夫]

[参照項目] | トルコ系諸言語

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