Azerbaijani Bible History (3)

**List: Azerbaijani Ministry Holy Bible ( Müqəddəs Yazılarda ) Azerbaijani... TRANS-CAUCASIAN TARTAR.    "A PECULIAR and rather corrupt dialect of the Turkish is spoken by the greater part of the Mosl_m population in Georgia, Shushi, Shirwan, Derbend, Baku, Karadagh, and North-west Persia.   As it is vernacular to numerous tribes in all the Russian provinces beyond the Caucasus, this dialect has been termed, by way of distinction, the Trans-Caucasian.   It differs in many respects from its cognate dialects spoken in Kasan and the Crimea.   It has none of the sweetness and dignity of the Turkish; and till reduced to grammatical principles by the German mies., did not even hold the rank of a written tongue.    The first work written in this dialect was a translation of the New Testament by Messrs. Zaremba and Pfander, agents of the Basle My. Society.   They at first experienced great difficulty in preparing this translation; for the Armenians of Shushi, though acquainted with the dialect as a colloquial medium, were unable to write it, and the Turks were unwilling to lend any aid to the undertaking.   Afterwards, however, an efficient assistant was found in Mirza Ferookh, an Armenian of Shushi, who in early youth had been carried captive into Karadagh, adopted into the family of the khan, and instructed in all the learning of Persia.   After spending seventeen years at the court of his royal patron, he bethought himself of his parents and his native village, and made his escape thither.   He originally joined the mies. with a view of learning the Russian language; but they employed him in translating this version of the New, and part of the Old Testament, into his native dialect, and the work was blessed to the conversion of his soul.   An edition of 1000 copies of the Gospel of St. Matthew was printed about the year 1836 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Since that period all direct my. efforts in the circulation of this version have been suspended by an imperial ukase."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only] TRANS-CAUCASIAN TARTAR.--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: Arabic Character   n.d. Matthew 5:1-12 unknown.]

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