South Azeri language

Azerbaijani
Azeri
Azərbaycan dili, آذربایجان دیلی‎, Азәрбајҹан дили
Pronunciation	[ɑzærbɑjˈd͡ʒɑn diˈli]
Native to	Republic of Azerbaijan Iran Russia Turkey Iraq Georgia
Region	Azerbaijan (historic Azerbaijan), Caucasus
Ethnicity	Azerbaijanis
Native speakers	26 million (2007)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Oghuz Azerbaijani
Writing system	In Azerbaijan: Latin (Azerbaijani alphabet) In Russia: Cyrillic In Iran: Persian alphabet In Georgia: Georgian script (very rare, only used in the Azeri poems of Sayat-Nova, an Armenian poet)
Official status
Official language in	Azerbaijan Russia Dagestan
Regulated by	Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`az`
ISO 639-2	`aze`
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual codes: – North Azerbaijani – South Azerbaijani – Salchuq – Qashqai
Glottolog	`azer1255` North Azeri–Salchuq `sout2696` South Azeri–Qashqa'i
Linguasphere	`part of 44-AAB-a`
Location of Azerbaijani speakers in Transcaucasia regions where Azerbaijani is the language of the majority regions where Azerbaijani is the language of a significant minority
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Azerbaijani (/ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːni/, /ˌɑː-/, /-ˈʒɑːni/) or Azeri (/æˈzɛəri/, /ɑːˈ-/ /əˈ-/), also known as Azerbaijani Turkish, is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Azerbaijanis, who are concentrated mainly in Transcaucasia and Iranian Azerbaijan (historic Azerbaijan). The language has official status in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Dagestan (a federal subject of Russia) but it does not have official status in Iranian Azerbaijan, where the majority of Azerbaijanis live. It is also spoken to lesser varying degrees in Azerbaijani communities of Georgia and Turkey and by diaspora communities, primarily in Europe and North America.