New naming rules in Azerbaijan not to apply to citizens of different nationality

"Today, more than half a million of names, used in Azerbaijan, have been studied. The principle of 'traffic lights' will not apply to citizens of Azerbaijan - Russian and Belarusians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Lezgins, Georgians and representatives of other nations. It does not deal with them because they have their own traditional system of naming. The new mechanism will apply only to the names of Azerbaijanis," the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences committee member, MP Nizami Jafarov said.

Azerbaijan will use a new mechanism for the naming, director of the Institute of Information Technologies of the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences Rasim Aliguliyev said.

"At the moment, the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences' commission, consisting of scholars, is exploring importance of citizens' names on recommendation of the Ministry of Justice. The list of names, according to the mechanism of 'traffic lights', will be submitted to the Ministry of Justice", Aliguliyev said.

Jafarov said that the system "traffic lights" is a technical methodology for naming.

"There are names for which there is always a green light For example, there are no mistakes in such names as Ali, Hasan, Mammad, Anar. This names are native for us. There are names for which we turn on a yellow light. This controversial names. There are traditional and new names. For example, the name Amalia. This is a traditional name. This name is not easy to take, but it is difficult to reject. There will be such names in future. Someone will name his/her child James. The child's name may be of foreign origin in mixed marriages. "Yellow light" will be used for these names. "Red Light" will be applied to those names that are completely wrong, " Jafarov said.


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