“Most Persians also learn Turkic [the name of the Azerbaijani language in the Middle Ages] as a native language, especially in provinces long under the jurisdiction of the Grand Sovereign (the Safavid Shah), such as Shirvan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Baghdad, and Iran. In these regions, children learn Turkic, which is so widespread at court that one rarely hears anyone speaking Persian.”
Source: Adam Olearius, The Travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Persia
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if i am not mistaken Ansestors of the Persians are Elams but making Scyhtians and Persians the same its not possible i think.
True that they were both iranic languages but scythians were steppe nomads.