Azerbaijani language
The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, or Azerbaijani Turkish[4] is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Dagestan in Russia.
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Azeri Azərbaycan dili, آذربایجان دیلی, Азәрбајҹан дили[note 1] | ||||
![]() Azerbaijani in Perso-Arabic Nastaliq (Iran), Latin (Azerbaijan), and Cyrillic (Russia). | ||||
Pronunciation | [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn diˈli] | |||
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Region | Iranian Azerbaijan, South Caucasus | |||
Ethnicity | Azerbaijanis | |||
Native speakers | 24 million (2022)[2] | |||
Language family | Turkic
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Early forms: | Old Anatolian Turkish
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Standard forms | Shirvani (In Republic of Azerbaijan)
Tabrizi (In Iranian Azerbaijan)
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Official status | ||||
Official language in | Azerbaijan Dagestan (Russia) Organization of Turkic States | |||
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Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-1 | az | |||
ISO 639-2 | aze | |||
ISO 639-3 | aze – inclusive code Individual codes: azj – North Azerbaijani azb – South Azerbaijani | |||
Linguasphere | part of 44-AAB-a | |||
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Azerbaijani is also spoken in Dagestan (a republic of Russia), southeastern and eastern Georgia, northeastern Turkey and in some parts of Ukraine, northern Dobruja in Romania and in northwestern Iran. In Dagestan, there are over 30 different languages, and Russian is used as a lingua franca.
Azerbaijani Language Media
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian Azerbaijani poet, who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian.
Reza Shah and Kemal Atatürk during the Shah's official visit to Turkey in 1934. Reza Shah spoke in South Azerbaijani while Atatürk spoke in Turkish, and the two leaders managed to communicate with each other quite effectively.
Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen are Oghuz languages
South Azerbaijani vowel chart, from Mokari & Werner (2016:509)
References
- ↑ Bulut, Christiane (2018b), "The Turkic varieties of Iran", in Haig, Geoffrey; Khan, Geoffrey (eds.), The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective, Walter de Gruyter, p. 398, ISBN 978-3-11-042168-2
- ↑ Template:E25
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Azerbaijani, North". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ↑ L. Johanson, "AZERBAIJAN ix. Iranian Elements in Azeri Turkish" in Encyclopædia Iranica .
- Notes
- ↑ Former Cyrillic spelling used in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
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- The written language of the Iraqi Turkmen is based on Istanbul Turkish using the modern Turkish alphabet.
- Professor Christiane Bulut has argued that publications from Azerbaijan often use expressions such as "Azerbaijani (dialects) of Iraq" or "South Azerbaijani" to describe Iraqi Turkmen dialects "with political implications"; however, in Turcological literature, closely related dialects in Turkey and Iraq are generally referred to as "eastern Anatolian" or "Iraq-Turkic/-Turkman" dialects, respectively.[1]
This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Azerbaijani language edition. |
This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Azerbaijani language edition. |