Azerbaijani leid

Azerbaijani or Azeri [3] or Torki[4][5] (Azərbaycanca, Azərbaycan dili) is a leid belongin tae the Turkic leid family, spaken in soothwastren Asie, primarily in Azerbaijan an northwastren Iran. Azerbaijani is a member o the Oghuz branch o the Turkic leids an is closely relatit tae Turkish, Qashqai an Turkmen. It haes aboot 30 million speakers athort the warld.

Azerbaijani
Azeri
Azərbaycan dili, آذربایجان دیلی‎, Азәрбајҹан дили[note 1]
Pronunciation[ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn diˈli]
Native tae
RegionAzerbaijan (historic Azerbaijan) an Caucasus
EthnicityAzerbaijanis
Native speakers
23 million (2018)e21
Turkic
  • Common Turkic
    • Oghuz
      • Western Oghuz
        • Azerbaijani
Staundart forms
Shirvan
Tabrizi
  • In Azerbaijan:
    Laitin (Azerbaijani alphabet)
  • In Iran: Persie alphabet
  • In Roushie: Cyrillic
  • In Georgie: Georgian script (verra rare, anerly used in the Azeri poems o Sayat-Nova, an Armenie poet)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Azerbaijan
 Roushie
Regulatit bi
Leid codes
ISO 639-1az
ISO 639-2aze
ISO 639-3aze – inclusive code
Individual codes:
azj – Caucasian Azerbaijani
azb – Iranian Azerbaijani
slq – Salchuq
qxq – Qashqai
Glottologazer1255  Caucasian Azeri–Salchuq[1]
sout2696  Iranian Azeri–Qashqa'i[2]
Linguaspherepairt o 44-AAB-a
Location o Azerbaijani speakers in Transcaucasie
  regions whaur Azerbaijani is the leid o the majority
  regions whaur Azerbaijani is the leid o a signeeficant minority
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