THE TYPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES OF AZERBAIJANI AND ENGLISH

Abstract

We learn foreign languages because we are part of the society that speaks it, because we want to understand that culture, or because we want to be understood by that speech community. If a language is not used in any community, it dies. Language is therefore a social activity. Only when we are aware of every facet of the people involved—their personalities, worldviews, attitudes, interpersonal relationships, social status, the activities they engage in, the subjects they discuss, linguistic and nonlinguistic precedents, what comes next, who they are, and a host of other details about them and the situations they find themselves in—can it be fully described. The English and Azerbaijani languages belong to different language families based on their typological structures and genesis. The earliest forms of English, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, were spoken by individuals in early mediaeval England. Azerbaijani is an agglutinative language that is part of the Oghuz group of Turkic languages. It is named after the Angles, a group of historic Germanic settlers in Great Britain