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.

Azerbaijani
Azeri
Azərbaycan dili, آذربایجان دیلی, Азәрбајҹан дили[note 1]
Azerbaijani.svg
Azerbaijani in Perso-Arabic Nastaliq (Iran), Latin (Azerbaijan), and Cyrillic (Russia).
Pronunciation[ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn diˈli]
Native to
  • Azerbaijan
  • Russia
  • Turkey
  • Iraq[a]
  • Georgia
  • Romania
  • Moldova
  • Ukraine
  • Serbia
  • Bulgaria
  • Afghanistan
  • Kazakhstan
RegionIranian Azerbaijan, South Caucasus
EthnicityAzerbaijanis
Native speakers24 million  (2022)[2]
Language family
Turkic
Early forms:
Standard forms
Shirvani (In Republic of Azerbaijan)
Tabrizi (In Iranian Azerbaijan)
Dialects
Writing system
Official status
Official language inAzerbaijan
Dagestan (Russia)
Organization of Turkic States
Regulated by
Language codes
ISO 639-1az
ISO 639-2aze
ISO 639-3azeinclusive code
Individual codes:
azj – North Azerbaijani
azb – South Azerbaijani
Linguaspherepart of 44-AAB-a
Map of the Azerbaijani language.svg
Areas that speak Azerbaijani
     The majority speak Azerbaijani      A sizable minority speaks Azerbaijani
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Azerbaijan
Azərbaycan
Azerbaijan Coat of arms of Azerbaijan

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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

References

  1. 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
  2. Template:E25
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Azerbaijani, North". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  4. L. Johanson, "AZERBAIJAN ix. Iranian Elements in Azeri Turkish" in Encyclopædia Iranica .
Notes
  1. Former Cyrillic spelling used in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
    • 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]