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	Naitional: Azerbaijan Regional: Iran Roushie Minorities: Turkey Iraq Georgie
Region	Azerbaijan (historic Azerbaijan) an Caucasus
Ethnicity	Azerbaijanis
Native speakers	23 million (2018)e21
Leid faimily	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Oghuz Azerbaijani
Staundart forms	Shirvan Tabrizi
Writin seestem	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  Dagestan
Regulatit bi	Azerbaijan Naitional Academy o Sciences (Caucasian Azerbaijani) na regulatory bouk (Iranian Azerbaijani)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	az
ISO 639-2	aze
ISO 639-3	aze – inclusive code Individual codes: azj – Caucasian Azerbaijani azb – Iranian Azerbaijani slq – Salchuq qxq – Qashqai
Glottolog	azer1255  Caucasian Azeri–Salchuq[1] sout2696  Iranian Azeri–Qashqa'i[2]
Linguasphere	pairt 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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Notes

1. Umwhile Cyrillic spellin uised in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.