Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani
Azərbaycan dili Азәрбајҹан дили آذربایجان دیلی
Pronunciation	/azærbajʤan dili/
Native to	Iran, Azerbaijan, also in parts of neighboring countries such as: Georgia, Russia, Iraq, Turkey, Ukraine
Native speakers	25 million
Language family	Altaic (controversial) Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani
Writing system	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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The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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.