Turkic · ISO 639-3 aze · az
Azerbaijani Language Azərbaycanca
Azerbaijani is a Turkic language spoken by about 29 million people in 6 countries. It is an official language of Azerbaijan. It is written in the Cyrillic, Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Azerbaijani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Azerbaijani
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Oghuz
- Azerbaijani
Writing system
Cyrillic, Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts
Related languages
About the Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani (Azərbaycanca) is spoken by about 29 million people. It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Oghuz group within the Oghuz branch.
Where is Azerbaijani spoken?
Azerbaijani is used in 6 countries. The largest communities live in Iran (21 million), Azerbaijan (9.5 million), Iraq (757,501), Türkiye (622,484) and Russia (309,806). More than half of the population speaks it in Azerbaijan — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Azerbaijani: Iran 24% (21 million), Azerbaijan 89% (9.5 million), Iraq 1.8% (757,501), Türkiye 0.7% (622,484) and Russia 0.2% (309,806).
Azerbaijani is an official language in 1 country: Azerbaijan. It also has regional official status in Iraq and Russia.
Writing system and status
Azerbaijani is written in the Cyrillic, Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Turkish, South Azerbaijani, North Azerbaijani, Turkmen and Qashqa'i.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 az, ISO 639-3 aze.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.