Azerbaijani language

The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani
Azərbaycan dili Азәрбајҹан дили آذربایجان دیلی
Pronunciation	/azærbajʤan dili/
Native to	Iran, Azerbaijan, also in parts of neighboring countries such as: Georgia, Russia, Iraq, Turkey, Ukraine
Native speakers	25 million
Language family	Altaic (controversial) Turkic Oghuz Azerbaijani
Writing system	Latin alphabet for North Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan, Perso-Arabic script for South Azerbaijani in Iran, and, formerly, Cyrillic alphabet for North Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani variants)
Official status
Official language in	Azerbaijan (North Azerbaijani), Iraq (South Azerbaijani; official in areas where Iraqi Turkmen form a majority)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	az
ISO 639-2	aze
ISO 639-3	aze

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Azerbaijani is also spoken in Dagestan (a republic of Russia), south-eastern and eastern Georgia, north eastern Turkey and in some parts of Ukraine and in northwestern Iran. In Dagesten, there are over 30 different languages, and Russian is used as a lingua franca.