Vowels creating derivational affixes in Azerbaijan language

Abstract

There are a lot of derivational affixes in the Turkish language. Derivational affixes
adding to the root words are the basis of the word formation. The most of new words are created in
this way in the Turkish language.
Not all of nine vowels in the Azerbaijani language create affixes. The vowels – e, o, and ö are not
attached in the formation of derivational affixes. All derivational affixes are formed with the vowels
of a, a, i, i, u and ü. As it seems, three of these vowels are back and three are front. Let's take a peek
at some of the derivational affixes created with these vowels: yay+la=yayla; yay+laq=yaylaq;
yay+lıq=yaylıq; kә+lә=kәlә; kә+lәk=kәlәk; ot+lu=otlu; ot+luq=otluq etc. In the formation of
derivational affixes vowels are in pairs: a and ә; ı and i; u and ü. Linguists often pair the vowels e
and ә but this is incorrect. The classification of derivational affixes shows that the a and ә vowels
act together in their formation. In this article it is shown that derivational affixes formed with 6
vowels are written in six forms. The derivational affixes as laq, lәk, lıq, lik, luq, lük form by adding
the consonant sounds of q and k to the end the of affix and word creation has been proved on the
basis of numerious samples.

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