Spoken in Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and Iran, Azerbaijani blends Turkic roots with Persian influences, making it a unique and culturally significant language.
Azerbaijani
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Classification
Altaic > Turkic
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Speakers
24 million
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Script
Cyrillic, Roman or Arabo-Persian
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Text direction
Depends on script used
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Official language
Azerbaijan, Iran
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Other names
Azeri
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Also spoken
Georgia, Iraq, Syrian Arab Republic
Azerbaijani
Not only that, but Azerbaijani is written in three different scripts: Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic.
Azeri, or Azerbaijani, is a Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani people both in Azerbaijan and Dagestan, Russia. There are two major varieties, the Northern Azerbaijan, spoken in Azerbaijan, and Southern Azerbaijani, spoken in Iran.
In Azerbaijan, speakers refer to themselves as Türki (Turkish). In fact, the Azeri language is closely related to Turkish and Turkmen, and they are mutually intelligible to some degree.
One of the distinct features of Azeri is the concept of vowel harmony. Whenever a grammatical suffix is added to a word, the vowel in the suffix must conform to the vowel category in the last syllable of the word. Syllables with hard vowels must be followed by suffixes with hard vowels and syllables with soft vowels must be followed by suffixes with soft vowels. This pattern gives Azerbaijani a distinctive sound.
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Interesting fact
Azerbaijani has been variously written in Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic scripts throughout history. In 1991, the Latin alphabet was reintroduced, but Cyrillic remains much more common.
