Traces of a foreign language in dialects of Azerbaijani and Turkish languages

Abstract

In the article, a number of important features of common loanwords used in the dialects of Azerbaijani and Turkish languages were revealed, and the analysis of loanwords in the etymological aspect was involved in the study. Issues related to the origin of a number of loanwords used in the mentioned dialects were investigated and the specific characteristics of those loanwords were analyzed. In this article, a study was conducted in the direction of revealing shared dialecticisms in the dialect and literary language lexicon of two closely related languages - Azerbaijani and Turkish. Traces of lexical units of Arabic and Persian origin were observed in the Turkish languages involved in the study. Loanwords have influenced the language either directly or indirectly. It is interesting that the traces of a foreign language were also found in the dialects of that language same as the dialects of Azerbaijani and Turkish literary languages. It happened that some borrowings are used only in dialects, and some in both literary language and dialects. Information about the origin of loanwords found at the level of literary language-dialect and dialect-dialect has been collected and specified from dictionaries. Dictionaries reflecting the dialects of both languages were used during the research. Loanwords in Azerbaijani and Turkish literary languages have been sufficiently studied, but comparative loanwords at the dialect level have hardly been involved in the research. From this point of view, the research work conducted in the aspect of the study of loanwords in the dialect and literary language lexicon of Azerbaijani and Turkish languages is relevant.

Keywords

• azerbaijani language
• turkish language
• literary language
• dialectological unit
• loanwords