Azerbaijani language
The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, or Azerbaijani Turkish[2] 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 | |
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| Azərbaycan dili Азәрбајҹан дили آذربایجان دیلی | |
| Pronunciation | /azærbajʤan dili/ |
| Native to |  Azerbaijan,  Iran,also in parts of neighboring countries such as:  Georgia, Russia, Iraq, Turkey, Ukraine |
Native speakers | 25 million [1] |
| Latin alphabet for North Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan, Perso-Arabic script for South Azerbaijani in Iran, and, formerly, Cyrillic alphabet for North Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani variants) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Azerbaijan (North Azerbaijani), Iraq (South Azerbaijani; official in areas where Iraqi Turkmen form a majority) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | az |
| ISO 639-2 | aze |
| ISO 639-3 | aze |
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| Azerbaijan Azərbaycan |
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Azerbaijani is also spoken in Dagestan (a republic of Russia), south-eastern and eastern Georgia, north eastern Turkey and in some parts of Ukraine and in northwestern Iran. In Dagesten, there are over 30 different languages, and Russian is used as a lingua franca.
References
Azerbaijani edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Azerbaijani edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- CIA factbook about Iran and CIA factbook about Azerbaijan Republic Archived 2012-05-07 at WebCite
- L. Johanson, "AZERBAIJAN ix. Iranian Elements in Azeri Turkish" in Encyclopædia Iranica .
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