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Azerbaijani

Spoken in Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and Iran, Azerbaijani blends Turkic roots with Persian influences, making it a unique and culturally significant language.

  • Classification

    Altaic > Turkic

  • Speakers

    24 million

  • Script

    Cyrillic, Roman or Arabo-Persian

  • Text direction

    Depends on script used

  • Official language

    Azerbaijan, Iran

  • Other names

    Azeri

  • 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.

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