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Language and literature · Azerbaijan

Turkic languages, epics, books, writers and poets — from the Orkhon inscriptions to today.

Works and epics

Literary workThe Book of Dede KorkutThe heroic epic of the Oghuz Turks — a shared Turkic monument made up of separate tales, inscribed by UNESCO in 2018 on a joint nomination by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Türkiye.
Literary workEpic of KoroghluThe epic of a folk hero who rises against tyranny, told across the Turkic world from Azerbaijan to Central Asia.
Literary workNizami's KhamsaNizami Ganjavi's masterpiece of five long poems (12th century), a summit of Eastern poetry.
Literary workFuzuli's Leyli and MajnunMuhammad Fuzuli's love poem written in Azerbaijani in 1536.
Literary workAkinchi newspaperThe first newspaper in Azerbaijani, published in Baku on 22 July 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi.
Literary workMolla Nasraddin magazineA satirical magazine published from 1906 to 1931, famous across the Muslim East for its cartoons.
Literary workGreetings to HeydarbabaShahriar's 1954 poem in Azerbaijani Turkic — a masterpiece devoted to childhood, the village and the mother tongue.

Writers and poets

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Languages

LanguageAzerbaijani languageA language of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic family, the state language of Azerbaijan and mother tongue of millions in South Azerbaijan.

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The epic's thirteenth tale was discovered only in 2018, in a newly found manuscript.
The Book of Dede Korkut →

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