There are very few people in America who learn or speak Azerbaijani. Those who study Azerbaijani can find careers in a variety of fields including business, consulting, translation and interpreting, Foreign Service and intelligence, journalism, and more.
Azerbaijani is a gateway to accessing Turkic languages spoken by millions of people in Iran, Iraq, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. These regions are of vital strategic importance in the world today. Azerbaijan is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus and possesses sizable reserves of oil resources. A conflict with neighboring Armenia continues to simmer, but pipelines through Georgia have given Azerbaijan a new window onto the world. Today, the United States is Azerbaijan’s most prominent trade partner, and these business partnerships are fueling demand for Americans who are fluent in Azerbaijani.
Modern Azerbaijani is a great resource for studying world-famous poets like Fuzuli, Nizami, and Khatai. It can also serve as a gateway to Ottoman Turkish, the language of diplomacy, administration, and literature in the Ottoman Empire. So you see, learning Azeri can open up rarely-explored research opportunities in history, culture, and languages of the Islamic world.
The South Caucasus has long been a crossroad, not just between the Iranian East and European West, but also between the Russian and steppe North and the Middle Eastern South. The Persian Empire was the first great empire to include Azerbaijan, followed by Armenian, Greco-Roman, Arab, and Turkic periods in Azerbaijani history.
Azerbaijani belongs to the Turkic group of languages, which includes languages such as Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur, and Tatar. Turkic languages have been spoken for many centuries across vast territory from the Balkans to China. Azerbaijani is mutually intelligible with Turkmen and Turkish. Azerbaijani’s distinctive characteristics are vowel harmony (vowels of the suffixes change to complement the vowels in the stem) and agglutinative grammar (suffixes with distinctive meaning are attached to the word stem one after another in a set order). Azerbaijani vocabulary contains loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Russian.
Course offerings are made available in accordance with class level and student interest. Several IAUNRC languages - including Azerbaijani - are part of IU’s Summer Language Workshop.
Aa Aa ا /a/ As 'a' in father
Bb Бб ب /b/ As 'b' in boy
Cc Ҹҹ ج /d͡ʒ/ As 'j' in joy
Çç چچ چ /t͡ʃ/ As 'ch' in champ
Dd Дд د /d/ As 'd' in red
Ee Ее ع /e/ As 'e' in red
Ff Фф ف /f/ As 'f' in fat
Gg Гг گ /ɡ/ As 'g' in gaggle
Gğ Ғғ غ /ɣ/ Velar approximate
Hh Һһ ح /h/ As 'h' in hot
Xx Хх خ /x/ As 'ch' in loch
Iı Ыы ع /ɯ/ As 'u' in cousin
İi Ии ع /i/ As 'ee' in feet
Jj Жж ژ /ʒ/ As 's' in measure
Kk Кк ك /k/, /ɡ/, /q/ As 'k' in kit
Qq Ққ ق /q/ As 'g' in gaggle
Ll Лл ل /l/ As 'l' in love
Mm Мм م /m/ As 'm' in man
Nn Нн ن /n/ As 'n' in nice
Oo Оо و /o/ As 'o' in nod
Öö Өө ۆ /ø/ uhh sound
Pp Пп پ /p/ As 'p' in pit
Rr Рр ر /r/ As 'r' in rat
Şş ش ش /ʃ/ As 'sh' in show
Ss Сс س /s/ As 's' in song
Tt Тт ت /t/ As 't' in tap
Uu Уу و /u/ As 'u' in bull
Üü Үү ۆ /y/ As 'ue' in rue
Vv Вв و /v/ As 'v' in waver
Yy Јј ي /j/ As 'y' in yes
Zz Зз ض /z/ As 'z' in zigzag
Audio transcript:
Salam. Necəsiniz?
Hi. How are you?
Audio transcript:
Azərbaycan musiqi və mədəniyyət ölkəsidir. Onların dili çox zordur!
Azerbaijan is a land of music and culture. Their language is really cool!
Audio transcript:
Azərbaycan xalqının mədəni və milli mirası çox maraqlıdır.
Azerbaijanis have a very interesting cultural and national heritage.
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