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Azerbaijani

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Azerbaijani and Persian

Countries

Countries

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

73
0 46
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National Language

Azerbaijan, Gambia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

Interesting Facts

  • Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
  • Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Turkish
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Osmanly language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3232
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

96
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2323
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Salam
سلام

Thank You

Təşəkkür edirəm
متشکرم

How Are You?

necəsən
چطور هستید?

Good Night

yaxşı gecə
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Axşamınız xeyir
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Günortanız Xeyir
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Sabahınız xeyir
صبح به خیر

Please

lütfən
لطفا

Sorry

üzr
متاسف

Bye

xudafiz
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Mən səni sevirəm
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Bağışlayın
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Derbent
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Russia
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

37,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gazakh
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Azerbaijan
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

37,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Baku
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

37.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

26.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.34 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

23.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

25.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
فارسی

Alternative Names

Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

azéri
persan

German Name

Aserbeidschanisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Azerbaijani
Persian people

History

Origin

16th Century
1500 BC

Language Family

Turkic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Turkic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Southwestern(Oghuz)
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Azerbaijani
Persian

Language Position

3823
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Azerbaijani
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

az
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

aze
fas

ISO 639 2/B

aze
per

ISO 639 3

aze
pes

ISO 639 6

aze
pers

Glottocode

azer1255
fars1254

Linguasphere

44-AAB-a
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Synthetic

Azerbaijani and Persian Alphabets

Azerbaijani and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Azerbaijani and Persian. In Azerbaijani Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Azerbaijani and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Azerbaijani and Persian languages. The Azerbaijani phonology consist Azerbaijani vowels and Azerbaijani consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Azerbaijani greetings vs Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Azerbaijani and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Azerbaijani and Persian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Azerbaijani and Persian dialects. Various dialects of Azerbaijani and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Azerbaijani are spoken in different Azerbaijani Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Azerbaijani vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Azerbaijani dialects include: Derbent, Gazakh. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Azerbaijani and Persian Speaking population

Azerbaijani and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Azerbaijani and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Azerbaijani and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Azerbaijani language is 0.34 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Azerbaijani and Persian on Azerbaijani vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Azerbaijani and Persian Language Codes

Azerbaijani and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Azerbaijani and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.