Israfil Hummatov, a 71-year-old member of Azerbaijan’s Gryz ethnic minority, grew up speaking Gryz, a Caucasian language unrelated to the Turkic Azerbaijani. But as he looks at the younger generations ...
Azerbaijanis are protesting the Iranian regime’s repression of the Azerbaijani language. Although Azerbaijanis play a pivotal role in Iranian society, a vast majority of them cannot read or write in ...