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Azerbaijani

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Also known as Azeri, Azerbaijani Turkic, Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani Turkic language

Oghuz Turkic language

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Azerbaijani, or Azərbaycan dili, is a modern natural language belonging to the Oghuz and Turkic subclasses. It is a macrolanguage comprising North Azerbaijani and South Azerbaijani. The language is indigenous to the Tabasaransky District, Derbentsky District, Rutulsky District, and Kars Province. It is spoken in Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Georgia.

The language uses the Latin script, Persian alphabet, Cyrillic script, and Arabic alphabet. Its linguistic typology is subject–object–verb, agglutinative, synthetic, and nominative–accusative. Azerbaijani has present, past, and future tenses, as well as nominative, dative, accusative, and genitive cases. There are 35,000,000 speakers, writers, or signers. The Wikimedia language code is "az".

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Oghuz
Has part
South Azerbaijani
Country
United States
Image
Azerbaijani.svg
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indigenous to
Derbent
Wikimedia language code
az
Commons category
Azerbaijani language
topic's main category
Category:Azerbaijani language
native label
Azərbaycan dili
short name
азербайджанский
linguistic typology
postposition
category for films in this language
Category:Azerbaijani-language films
exact match
turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=azb
P10369
king
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
number of speakers, writers, or signers
35000000
P11012
Đorđe Gagić
entry in abbreviations table
азерб.
has tense
future tense
has grammatical case
ablative case
P13311
Trøgstad Municipality
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Iran
female form of label
la langue azérie
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Encyclopedic overview

Azerbaijani or Azeri (also referred to as Azerbaijani Turkic or Azerbaijani Turkish) is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who are native to the Azerbaijan region of Iran, as well as the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Iranian Azerbaijanis speak South Azerbaijani, while the ones in the Republic speak North Azerbaijani; but it is unclear whether these two varieties form one language, as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) considers Northern and Southern Azerbaijani to be distinct languages.

Azerbaijani is the only official language in the Republic of Azerbaijan and one of the 14 official languages of Dagestan (a federal subject of Russia), but it does not have official status in Iran, where the majority of Iranian 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Azerbaijani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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