Turkic · ISO 639-3 azj
North Azerbaijani Language
North Azerbaijani is a Turkic language spoken by about 24 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where North Azerbaijani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak North Azerbaijani
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Oghuz
- Nuclear Oghuz
- Central Oghuz
- North Azerbaijani
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the North Azerbaijani language
North Azerbaijani is spoken by about 24 million people, which makes it the 66th most spoken language in the world — just behind South Azerbaijani (24 million) and ahead of Gan Chinese (24 million). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Central Oghuz group within the Oghuz branch.
Where is North Azerbaijani spoken?
North Azerbaijani is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Azerbaijan (24 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Azerbaijan — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
North Azerbaijani is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
North Azerbaijani is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are South Azerbaijani, Turkish, Turkmen, Qashqa'i and Azerbaijani.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 azj.
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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.