The Yerevan dialect or ''Īravān'' dialect is one of the dialects of the

Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani () or Azeri (), also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan where the North Azerbaija ...

Classification

According to the German philologist

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, the Yerevan dialect belongs to Southern group of

, along with the Nakhichevan and

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dialects.Fascicle 3. — VIII. Azeri Turkish (author G. Doerfer), pp. 245–248. // Encyclopaedia Iranica. Volume III: Atas-Bayhaqi, Zahir-Al-Din. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1989, 896 pages. ''... Azeri dialects. We may distinguish the following Azeri dialects (see Širäliev, 1941 and 1947): (1) eastern group: Derbent (Darband), Kuba, Shemakha (Šamāḵī), Baku, Salyani (Salyānī), and Lenkoran (Lankarān), (2) western group: Kazakh (not to be confounded with the Kipchak-Turkic language of the same name), the dialect of the Ayrïm (Āyrom) tribe (which, however, resembles Turkish), and the dialect spoken in the region of the Borchala river; (3) northern group: Zakataly, Nukha, and Kutkashen; (4) southern group: Yerevan (Īravān), Nakhichevan (Naḵjavān), and Ordubad (Ordūbād); (5) central group: Ganja (Kirovabad) and Shusha; (6) North Iraqi dialects; (7) Northwest Iranian dialects: Tabrīz, Reżāʾīya (Urmia), etc., extended east to about Qazvīn; (8) Southeast Caspian dialect (Galūgāh). Optionally, we may adjoin as Azeri (or “Azeroid”) dialects: (9) East Anatolian, (10) Qašqāʾī, (11) Aynallū, (12) Sonqorī, (13) dialects south of Qom, (14) Kabul Afšārī. ...'' The Azerbaijani philologist Memmedaghi Shiraliyev also places it in the Southern group to which he also adds the

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dialect. Soviet philologist Ninel Hajiyeva has concurred with Shiraliyev. Swedish philologist

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and Azerbaijani philologist Elbrus Azizov do not mention the Yerevan dialect in their classification of Azerbaijani language dialects.

History

According to Shiraliyev, the formation of the Yerevan dialect dates back to the 18th century when the

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were formed in the areas of modern-day

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and

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.Ширалиев М. Ш. Диалекты и говоры азербайджанского языка // Диалекты тюркских языков: очерки. — М.: «Восточная литература» РАН, 2010. — С. 36. — .

References

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