Ajem-Turkic
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Ajem-Turkic or Ajami Turkic (; Türkī-yi ʿacemī, 'Persian Turkic' or 'Persian Turkish'), also known as Middle Azeri or Middle Azerbaijanian, is the Turkic vernacular spoken in Iran between the 15th and 18th centuries. The modern Azerbaijani language is descended from this language.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Ajem-Turkic
- Language.altname
- Ajami Turkic, Middle Azeri, Middle Azerbaijanian
- Language.region
- Iran, Eastern Anatolia, Southern Caucasus, Dagestan
- Language.era
- 15th—18th centuriesDeveloped into Azerbaijani
- Language.familycolor
- Altaic
- Language.fam1
- Turkic
- Language.fam2
- Common Turkic
- Language.fam3
- Oghuz
- Language.fam4
- Western Oghuz
- Language.ancestor
- Old Anatolian Turkish
- Language.script
- Perso-Arabic alphabet
- Language.isoexception
- historical
- Language.glotto
- none
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language
- Subclass of
- Old Anatolian Turkish
- Country
- Ganja khanate
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- writing system
- Persian alphabet
- native label
- تركى
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ajem-Turkic or Ajami Turkic (; Türkī-yi ʿacemī, 'Persian Turkic' or 'Persian Turkish'), also known as Middle Azeri or Middle Azerbaijanian, is the Turkic vernacular spoken in Iran between the 15th and 18th centuries. The modern Azerbaijani language is descended from this language.
==Name==
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