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Azerbaijani

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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Within Vinony's link graph, Azerbaijani is referenced by 6,859 other articles, and connects out to Azerbaijan, Persian alphabet and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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Vinony files it under Agglutinative languages, Azerbaijani language and Indigenous languages of European Russia.

Its subject is documented across 178 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Has part: South Azerbaijani
Image: Azerbaijani.svg

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Wikimedia language code: az
Commons category: Azerbaijani language
native label: Azərbaycan dili
short name: азербайджанский
exact match: turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=azb
P10369: king
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 35000000
P11012: Đorđe Gagić
entry in abbreviations table: азерб.
P13311: Trøgstad Municipality
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.