Global InformationAzerbaijani language information
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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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Official language in | Azerbaijan Dagestan (Russia) Organization of Turkic States |
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| 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 | |
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Azerbaijani (/ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒæni, -ɑːni/ AZ-ər-by-JAN-ee) or Azeri (/æˈzɛəri, ɑː-, ə-/ az-AIR-ee, ah-, ə-), also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the North Azerbaijani variety is spoken, and in the Azerbaijan region of Iran, where the South Azerbaijani variety is spoken. North Azerbaijani has official status in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Dagestan (a federal subject of Russia), but South Azerbaijani does not have official status in Iran, where the majority of Azerbaijani people live. Azerbaijani is also spoken to lesser varying degrees in Azerbaijani communities of Georgia and Turkey and by diaspora communities, primarily in Europe and North America.
Although there is a very high degree of mutual intelligibility between both forms of Azerbaijani, there are significant differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, and sources of loanwords. The standardized form of North Azerbaijani (spoken in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Russia) is based on the Shirvani dialect, while South Azerbaijani uses the Tabrizi dialect as its prestige variety. Since the Republic of Azerbaijan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Northern Azerbaijani has used the Latin script. On the other hand, South Azerbaijani has always used and continues to use the Perso-Arabic script.
Azerbaijani is closely related to Turkish, Turkmen, Gagauz, Qashqai, and Crimean Tatar, being mutually intelligible with each of these languages to varying degrees.
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- ^ 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)
- ^ a b "Azerbaijani, North". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
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