Azerbaijani language
Oghuz Turkic language
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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 | |
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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] |
Native to | |
Region | Iranian Azerbaijan, South Caucasus |
Ethnicity | Azerbaijanis |
Native speakers | 24 million (2022)[2] |
Turkic
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Early forms | |
Standard forms | Shirvani (In Republic of Azerbaijan)
Tabrizi (In Iranian Azerbaijan)
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Dialects | |
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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 codeIndividual codes: azj – North Azerbaijaniazb – South Azerbaijani |
Glottolog | azer1255 Central Oghuz |
Linguasphere | part of 44-AAB-a |
![]() Areas that speak Azerbaijani The majority speak Azerbaijani A sizable minority speaks Azerbaijani | |
Azerbaijani is also spoken in Dagestan (a republic of Russia), south-eastern and eastern Georgia, north eastern 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.
References
change- ↑ 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
- ↑ Azerbaijani language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ 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]
Azerbaijani edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Azerbaijani edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia