Classical Azerbaijani

Noun

Classical Azerbaijani (uncountable)

1. A register of the Azerbaijani language, characterized by extensive lexical and grammatical borrowing from Persian, used for literary and especially poetic purposes during the classical period of Azerbaijani literature, approximately from 16th to early 20th century.
   • The literary revival in the native language stemmed from the need to communicate the ideas of the enlightenment to as wide a public as possible. Akhundzadä, who throughout most of his life composed lyric poetry in Persian, when writing works that carried a message of social importance used a...1985, Tadeusz Swietochowski, “A century of Russian rule”, in Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN...
   • Mäkhtumquli avoids the altered syntax so typical of the Chagatay ghazal and in particular the Persian syntactic constructions. The relation of his language to classical Azerbaijani has been noted (Benzing 1964:39), and this is probably a result of the influence of poetic models in that language...1992, Walter Feldman, “Interpreting the Poetry of Mäkhtumquli”, in Jo-Ann Gross, editor, Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, Durkham and London: Durkham University Press...