Azerbaijani

Turkic24 million totalLatin

RegionAzerbaijan/Iran

FamilyTurkic

Speakers24 million total

ScriptLatin

TypeAlphabetic

About Azerbaijani

The official language of Azerbaijan. Switched scripts from Arabic to Latin, then to Cyrillic, then back to Latin. Largely mutually intelligible with Turkish. Far more speakers live across Iran than in Azerbaijan proper. Home of the mugham vocal art.

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