Azerbaijani language
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| Azerbaijani Azərbaycan dili Азәрбајҹан дили آذربایجان دیلیTemplate:Infobox Language/pronunciation |
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| Spoken in: |  Iran,Template:Country data Azerbaijan, also in parts of neighboring countries such as: Template:Country data Georgia,  Russia, Iraq[needs proving], Turkey, Ukraine |
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| Total speakers: | 25 million [1] | |
| Ranking: | 34th (native speakers) | |
| Language family: | Altaic[2] (controversial) Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani |
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| 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 of: | Template:Country data Azerbaijan (North Azerbaijani), Iraq (South Azerbaijani; official in areas where Iraqi Turkmen form a majority)[needs proving] |
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| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | az | |
| ISO 639-2: | aze | |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkic, or Azerbaijani Turkic, is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. North Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan. This type is also spoken in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, south-eastern and eastern Georgia, north eastern Turkey and in some parts of Ukraine. South Azerbaijani is the type of Azerbaijani spoken in northwestern Iran.
