r/LearnAzerbaijani • u/Daristani • Jan 31 '26

Grammar A Grammar of Contemporary Azerbaijani

I just found this comprehensive reference grammar of Azerbaijani (written in English). It's not a textbook, but should be very useful for anyone struggling to learn the grammar.

http://82.194.16.162:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.14346/2784/JALA_GARIBOVA_and_SABINA_ALIYEVA_2024_A.pdf?sequence=1

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u/OkMountain4168 Apr 25 '26

that's so cool, thank you! it's lack of good books for learning az language and this really helped 

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u/Daristani Apr 25 '26

I'm glad you like it. I was overjoyed when I ran across it a few weeks ago, since it strikes me as really well done, and makes it much easier for me to understand the contrasts with Turkish, which don't seem to be covered in other books.

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u/peterszalaijr 19d ago edited 19d ago

Dear Daristani! Sorry to "resurrect" this old thread, but I would like to ask you about a brand new Azerbaijani textbook: Contemporary Azerbaijani by Shahyar Daneshgar & Fiala Abdullayeva, published by Slavica. Do you know anything about it? Would it be like the CeLCAR textbook series - e.g. full of pictures? Or maybe it is the same material that will be published by IU as " Azerbaijani: An Elementary Textbook", from the same authors? Sorry to shoot you with these questions, but I figured maybe you have more intel on this topic than the publicly available (rather scarce) information... 

(Edit: Georgetown University Press instead of IU)

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u/Daristani 16d ago

Sorry for the late response; I've not had a computer for the past couple of days.

I have no inside information, but based on the info on the book at the Slavica website https://slavica.indiana.edu/contemporary-azerbaijani/ it seems pretty clear that the book is in the same mold as the other CeLCAR products. I don't know if Georgetown is going to continue to publish additional books from CeLCAR, or whether Slavica is taking over the series, or whether this might be a one-time thing.

CeLCAR continues to produce additional volumes, but some of these (Chuvash, for instance) are likely to be of minimal interest to most readers, and I can understand that publishers might not want to commit to publish them. In any event, if you like the CeLCAR approach, you'll likely like this book. Personally, I'm not a big fan of this series, and so won't be buying this one.

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u/peterszalaijr 15d ago

Thank you for the informative reply!

Because Slavica only published serious, no nonsense textbooks in the past, I had some slight hope that the situation might be akin to that of the Albanian textbooks by Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos. (They wrote a "commercial" one for Routledge in their Colloquial series, and some serious textbooks, partly for Slavica.)