Azerbaijani language
(Redirected from Azeri language)
| 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[source?], 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) | |
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Official language in | Azerbaijan (North Azerbaijani), Iraq (South Azerbaijani; official in areas where Iraqi Turkmen form a majority)[source?] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | az |
| ISO 639-2 | aze |
| ISO 639-3 | aze |
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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 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[change | change source]
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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