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second phase · Language · azb · Turkic, Oghuz

South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish)

تۆرکجه · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Northwestern Iran, Tehran and other cities; written in the Arabic-based script.

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azb · Arab · right to left · second phase

Language · azb · Turkic, Oghuz · second phase

South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish)

تۆرکجه · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Northwestern Iran, Tehran and other cities; written in the Arabic-based script.

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ScriptArabright to leftsecond phase
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azb
تۆرکجهSouth Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish) · Arab
Code
azb
Family
Turkic, Oghuz
Where
Northwestern Iran, Tehran and other cities; written in the Arabic-based script
Phase
second phase
Coverage
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Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

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Writing

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Its own names

تۆرکجهtürkcə
right to left

Scripts

Arab37 letters
  • Written in Perso-Arabic script in Iran; North Azerbaijani uses Latin (az-Latn)

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Azerbaijani Arabic-based alphabet to Latin, ALA-LC (2017)Letter by letter. Vowel harmony decides between i and ı and between u and ü; this demo cannot, so check against a dictionary.
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Resources

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Glottolog: South Azerbaijanireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Glottolog: North Azerbaijanireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Turkic, then Common Turkic, then Oghuz, then Nuclear Oghuz, then Central Oghuz
Codes
ISO 639-3 azb · macrolanguage aze · Glottolog sout2697
Dialects
South Azerbaijani: Afshari, Aynallu, Baharlu, Bayat, Dara-Gaz, Galugah, Kars, Kirkuk, Lotf-Abad, Moqaddam, Nafar, Pishagchi, Qajar, Qaragozlu, Shahsavani, Sonqor, Tabriz, Zanjan Turkic (18 listed in all)
Standing
South Azerbaijani: not endangered (3 (Wider communication)) secondary
Sounds
24 consonants and 9 vowels, after Karimzad and Shosted 2015 · the inventory verified

b cç d̪ d̪z f ɡ ɣ h j ɟʝ k l m n̪ p ɾ s ʃ t̪ t̪s v x z ʒ æ ɑ e i o œ u ɯ y

Central Oghuz
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Grammar in short

  • Word order is usually subject, object, verb.
  • Words are built by adding suffixes in a fixed order.
  • Vowel harmony: suffix vowels follow the vowels of the stem.
  • There is no grammatical gender.
  • Nouns take six cases.

to verify · Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge.

Names

Many speakers in Iran call their language Türki or Türkcə. Glottolog and ISO 639-3 name it South Azerbaijani (azb). Azerbaijani and Azerbaijani Turkish are also used in English.

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority.

North and South

ISO 639-3 treats Azerbaijani as a macrolanguage (aze) with North (azj) and South (azb). Speakers on both sides of the border understand each other, and many see one language. The two standards differ in script and in loanwords from Russian and Persian.

to verify · ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority.; Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge.

In law

The Constitution of Iran (Article 15) makes Persian the official language and allows regional languages in the press, media and literature teaching. South Azerbaijani has no separate official status in Iran.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
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Speakers

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Year
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Status
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Azerbaijani TurkishIDCDC-LNG-01 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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