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Number of speakers' source and lock icon

Locking the website is the worst thing you can do. If you click the ethnologue's link, which shows total speakers from 2022, you can't reach it.

Azerbaijan's population is 10 million. There are 30 million Azerbaijani people in Iran. Even if we count half of them only knows Persian, it is still more than 25 million. Also we cant forget about the diaspora in east of Türkiye, Russian Federation, EU, Iraq. Furkanberk52 (talk) 11:36, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

4 names for a language is too much.

I understand Azerbaijani and Azeri, but why add "Azeri turkic" if immediately afterwards there is a definition that Azerbaijani is "a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch". "Azeri turkish" this does not make sense at all, because Turkish is its own separate language. I think there was just confusion between turkic and turkish again? Ruqud (talk) 18:52, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's not correct. Turkish is the correct form actually, "Turkic" became popular after the Soviet Russian term тюркский. Also [1]. Beshogur (talk) 12:49, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

4 names for a language is still a lot. This creates unnecessary confusion. Just Azerbaijani and maybe Azeri. Is there an Azerbaijani-Slavic or Azerbaijani-Germanic language? . Azerbaijani is already belong to the Turkic language group, so in the end it is just a tautology. And what does the Soviet Union have to do with it? It's 2025 now. Moreover, this is an English article. On Wikipedia itself, in the corresponding article, the language of Turkish people is called "Turkish". "Turkish" is used for "Turkish" people exclusively, whereas Turkic is used for all people of the Turkic group. Why all that unnecessary terminological mess? 176.15.248.252 (talk) 13:43, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's just WP:IDONTLIKEIT. This is the weakest argument ever. Beshogur (talk) 20:33, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Southeast Anatolian Dialects being forgotten

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"We have to add Southeast anatolian dialect as Azeroid because the East anatolian link only encompasses the adminstrative region and deny the existence of Southeast anatolian dialect from Diyarbekir, Mardin Turkmens dialects which are basically the same as Urmiye or Iraqi Kerkük dialects. I am not speaking about the Turkish spoken by Kurdish people with an accent but I am speaking about the forgotten Turks from the former Diyarbekir Vilayet. Ziya Gökalp, a Turk from Diyarbekir used to say that his dialect was spoken from Urfa to Urmiye, from Diyarbakir to Musul. Please can we add the Southeast Anatolian dialect (even if East anatolian is enough I want to clarify this.) My sources: https://nek.istanbul.edu.tr/ekos/TEZ/19595.pdf https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tdded/issue/38231/440317 https://www.academia.edu/94031888/Evliya_%C3%87elebi_Seyahatnamesine_G%C3%B6re_XVII_Y%C3%BCzy%C4%B1l_Azerbaycan_T%C3%BCrkmen_A%C4%9Fz%C4%B1" Khan07Y (talk) 16:55, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]