Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 13 / Trend A.Huseynbala /
Azerbaijan submits the issue on nationalization of endings of surnames for discussion.
"There were other offers on the endings of names in addition to the proposed concept, prepared by the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences (ANAS). Some proposed to add the end of-jan, as the country's name - Azerbaijan ends with this ending," Parliamentary Culture Committee Head Nizami Jafarov told Trend today. "This is an interesting proposal, it could be discussed. But I think that such proposals will not find its justification. The tradition in the matter of names required to some extent must be preserved. People accept new idea with difficulty. Presently, we can not ensure people to accept the old tradition."
The conception, prepared as a result of research by a special commission established by the ANAS, has already been presented to the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration.
According to the 1993 Law on brining names of citizens of Azerbaijan in line with the state language, the citizens can change the end "-ov", "-ev", in their names into "-li", ("-li","-lu" "lyu", depending on the root of the word) "-zadeh," "oglu", "-qizi" or completely remove the end.
He said the process of changing the names of newborns from a certain time will be launched following the adoption of the proposals to change the names. The rest of the population will be able to join this process in a simplified manner.
"There will be adopted a law or made an order on the issue of changing names. Changing names is largely depends on the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's approval of the concept submitted to it," he said.
The process of changing names will not be mandatory. "After the establishment of certain rules of procedure, any citizen will be able to change his name on very simplified rules," he added.
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