My father was an Azerbaijani from Iran, and I grew up hearing Southern Azerbaijani at home. Unfortunately, he passed away a decade ago, and I haven’t really spoken Azerbaijani since I was a teenager.

I would now really like to learn the language properly again, especially the Azerbaijani spoken in Iran rather than primarily Standard/Baku Azerbaijani or the Igdir variant.

I know that at the end of the day they are varieties of the same language and that learning Standard Azerbaijani would obviously still help me a lot. But this is also quite personal for me. I would like to reconnect with that side of my heritage and my roots, and eventually be able to pass the language on to the next generation instead of losing it completely.

The problem is that most learning resources I find are focused on the Republic of Azerbaijan and Standard Azerbaijani and even that is very limited. I’m specifically interested in the vocabulary, pronunciation, expressions and general way of speaking you would hear among Azerbaijani Turks in Iran. I speak istanbul turkish okay-ish, but growing up in the diaspora did not really help, but you can assume that I know some vocab. My struggle is two-fold, pronounciation and vocabulary, since I am quite biased with anatolian turkish.

I’m therefore grateful for basically any help: books, YouTube channels, Instagram pages, podcasts, dictionaries, courses, teachers, online communities or even just advice on how to approach learning Southern Azerbaijani.

Would you recommend learning Standard Azerbaijani first and then adapting it, or is it possible to focus on Iranian/Southern Azerbaijani from the beginning?

I’d also be especially interested in hearing from people from Tabriz, Urmia, Ardabil, Khoy or other Azerbaijani-speaking parts of Iran, or from diaspora families who managed to keep the language alive abroad.

Any advice would mean a lot to me. Thank you very much!

Why dont you speak your own language?turkish and azerbaijani turkish sound similiar except turkmen turkish so stop talking english.

I don't understand a bit why Azerbaijani-e Gharbi is considered Kurdish.

I’m asking because it could be advantageous to temporarily escape assimilation and gain some momentum.

This is a slogan chanted by azerbaijani crowds in iran to reject the ban on native language education for azerbaijanis

Azerbaijani children despite not knowing any other language and consisting 25%+ of iranian children are forced to study in Persian, it reduces scientific potential of them massively and heavily discourages literacy

At the same time some parents try to adopt by not teaching their children their own language, which results in cultural assimilation and destruction of azerbaijani language in iran

Today during Tractor FC game with Peykan FC

Please dont vote fakely (i said azeri here to keep it short, not for any other means)

Such as slang or short forms/initialisms of the place names?
I ask as part of a linguistic study covering this topic!

I’m sure this subreddit gets this question a lot, but I haven’t seen anything relating to it recently (sorry if I missed it). As a non-Azerbaijani, I think uniting an ethnic group into one sovereign state is generally nice in theory, and I’m sure some in Azerbaijan would agree.

But barely anyone asks the Azerbaijanis of Iran, and there are more of y’all living in Iran than in Azerbaijan. So that’s why I wanted to ask you guys. Do you guys also aspire for South Azerbaijan to unite with the Republic of Azerbaijan? If you say no because of the current reality in Azerbaijan, what would need to change for you to agree with unification?

I’m from the Mil Steppe in Azerbaijan, and эmy paternal line is connected to the Karabakh beys, Khalaj Jamaat, Takleh oymaq and Damirchihasanli mahal.

My Y-DNA is R-Z282 → R-Y17491 → R-YP4858 → R-SK2014.

What interests me is that related branches occur among Turkish Alevis, Turkmen/Yörük groups and Kurds from different tribal backgrounds. This makes me wonder whether my paternal lineage represents an ancient Eurasian steppe lineage that later became absorbed into Iranian- and Turkic-speaking populations.

One possible, very tentative route could be:
Ancient steppe → Iranian/Indo-Iranian populations → Sarmatian/Kangju sphere → Hunnic-period populations → Caucasus/Anatolia → Kurdization<—> Turkization → Karabakh/Mil Steppe.

I wonder whether there could have been an older migration or tribal movement from South Azerbaijan / present-day northern Iran toward Karabakh, possibly through places such as Kharaaghaj–Kalash

I’m not claiming that R-Z282 proves Sarmatian, Iranian or Hunnic ancestry. I’m trying to understand whether the ancient steppe/Iranian connection could explain how this lineage eventually appeared among the Turkic-speaking population of Karabakh.
I’d especially appreciate opinions from people familiar with R-Z282/YP4858/SK2014, Sarmatians, Kangju, Huns, Kurdish tribes, Anatolian Alevis and Karabakh history

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