Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
117
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Turkish
Derived From
-
Osmanly language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2932
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Salam
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Təşəkkür edirəm
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
necəsən
Good Night
İyi Geceler
yaxşı gecə
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Axşamınız xeyir
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Günortanız Xeyir
Good Morning
günaydın
Sabahınız xeyir
Please
lütfen
lütfən
Sorry
üzgünüm
üzr
Bye
Hoşçakal
xudafiz
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Mən səni sevirəm
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Bağışlayın
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Derbent
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Russia
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0037,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Gazakh
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
480,000.0037,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Baku
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Azerbaijan
How Many People Speak
140,000.0037.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
933
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million26.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.34 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
French Name
turc
azéri
German Name
Türkisch
Aserbeidschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Azerbaijani
Origin
c. 1350
16th Century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Turkic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Azerbaijani
Language Position
1938
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Azerbaijani
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
tr
az
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
aze
ISO 639 2/B
tur
aze
ISO 639 3
tur
aze
ISO 639 6
tur
aze
Glottocode
nucl1301
azer1255
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative