South Azerbaijani language
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| South Azerbaijani | ||
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| Spoken in: | Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan | |
| Region: | northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey | |
| Total speakers: | 24,364,000 worldwide | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani South Azerbaijani |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | azb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
South Azerbaijani is a variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in northwestern Iran and neighboring regions of Iraq and Turkey. Other communities exist in Afghanistan and Syria. Dialects include Aynallu, Karapapakh, Tabriz, Afshari, Shahsavani, Moqaddam, Baharlu, Nafar, Qaragozlu, Pishagchi, Bayat, Qajar. North Azerbaijani uses a Latin script while an Arabic script is used to write South Azerbaijani. [2] South Azerbaijani is influenced by the Persian and Arabic languages while North Azerbaijani is influenced by the Russian language. While there is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility, there are also morphological and phonological differences between the two varieties, so much so that ISO 639-3 lists them as two varieties of a single macrolanguage--Azerbaijani. [3]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ ISO 639-3 entry for South Azerbaijani and ISO 639-3 entry for Azerbaijani macrolanguage
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[edit] Further Reading
- Sooman Noah Lee. 1996. "A Grammar of Iranian Azerbaijani," University of Sussex PhD dissertation.
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