A textbook written for teaching Azerbaijani Turkish as a mother tongue: Türkce Sarf-Nahiv

Azerbaijani, which is one of the contemporary Turkish dialects and belongs to the Oghuz group, has started to move away from Anatolian Oghuz Turkish due to political, geographical, religious and socio-economic reasons since the Old Anatolian Turkish period, and has continued its development towards becoming a separate written language since the 16th century. Azerbaijani Turkish, which was subjected to "language planning" during the Soviet Union period and tried to be transformed into a separate "language", continues to be used today as a written language very close to Turkey Turkish despite all interventions. The most influential area of political developments in Azerbaijan, especially during the Soviet period, has been education and training. The Communist Party administration primarily targeted "language" and "identity" while trying to impose the dominant ideology of the period on the people through educational programs and plans. Changes in the nomenclature of Azerbaijani Turkish and Turks and their reflections on mother tongue education clearly demonstrate this. Turkic Sarf-Nahiv, one of the textbooks used in mother tongue teaching in Azerbaijan, was prepared in 1924 by a commission consisting of Ismail Hikmet, Abdulla Shaiq, Said Mir Qasımzadə, Javad Axundzadə, Jabbar Əfəndizadə and Mustafa Tevfik. The language to be taught and about which information is given in the work is called "Turkish". This language, which is very close to Turkey Turkish of the period, is the language used by the authors in the work. In this work, which is written in Arabic alphabet, Latin and Cyrillic letters are also used from time to time in order to transfer the sound equivalents correctly. This practice provides a great convenience in understanding the phonetic features of the language described and used in the work. Therefore, the fact that the phonetic and morphological features of Turkey Turkish and local dialectal features are given both in Arabic and sometimes in Latin letters makes the work a very important source in terms of language analysis. In this study, the language of the Turkish Sarf-Nahiv textbook used in mother tongue teaching in Azerbaijan is analyzed under two separate headings as the language used in the work and the language described in the work, and this language is analyzed from a diachronic and synchronic perspective by comparing it with Turkey Turkish in terms of sound, spelling and form. In line with these analyzes, it has been determined that the language used in the work has common phonetic, orthographic and morphological features with Turkey Turkish.