North Azerbaijani language

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North Azerbaijani
Spoken in:	Azerbaijan and neighboring Caucasian region
Total speakers:	7,059,529 worldwide including 4,000,000 monolinguals
Language family:	Altaic[1]  Turkic   Oghuz    Azerbaijani     North Azerbaijani
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	azj
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North Azerbaijani is a variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in Azerbaijan and neighboring regions of the Caucasus. Expatriate communities exist in Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. There are reported to be some North Azerbaijani speakers remaining in Armenia. Dialects include Quba, Derbend, Baku, Shamakhi, Salyan, Lenkaran, Qazakh, Airym, Borcala, Terekeme, Qyzylbash, Nukha, Zaqatala, Qabala, Yerevan, Nakhchivan, Ordubad, Ganja, Shusha, Karapapak. Dialect differences are slight. There are significant differences between North Azerbaijani and South Azerbaijani in phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, and loanwords. ^[2] North Azerbaijani is the national language of Azerbaijan and the Baku variety is the basis of Standard Azerbaijani. It is officially written with a Roman script, but the older Cyrillic script is still widely used. ^[3] North Azerbaijani differs from South Azerbaijani in the same ways that distinguish Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian, and Hindi and Urdu, three speech varieties that differ in writing traditions and lexical borrowing. . There is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility, so they are listed as part of a single macrolanguage in ISO 639-3, but still separated. ^[4]

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• Ethnologue entry for North Azerbaijani
• Claus Schönig. 1998. "Azerbaijanian," The Turkic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions. London: Routledge. Page 248-260.

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