North Azerbaijani language

North Azerbaijani
Spoken in	Azerbaijan and neighboring Caucasian region
Native speakers	7,059,529 worldwide including 4,000,000 monolinguals  (date missing)
Language family	Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani North Azerbaijani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	azj
Linguasphere	part of 44-AAB-a

North Azerbaijani (also known as North Azeri) 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.^[1] 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.^[2] There is a fair degree^[quantify] of mutual intelligibility between North and South Azerbaijani.^{[citation needed]} Ethnologue considers them to be distinct languages.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
2. ^ Schönig (1998), pg. 248.
3. ^ ISO 639-3 entry for the Azerbaijani

References

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

See also

• Krymchak language
• Khorasani Turkish language
• Gagauz language
• Pecheneg language
• Karaim language
• Bulgar language
• Salar language

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