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As of 2011, there are some 9.23 million speakers of North Azerbaijani including 4 million monolingual speakers (many North Azerbaijani speakers also speak Russian, as is common throughout former USSR countries).
- The Most Popular and Official Language of Azerbaijan
- The Minority Languages of Azerbaijan
- The Endangered Languages of Azerbaijan
- Immigrant Languages of Azerbaijan
- Foreign Languages Spoken in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani, also called the Azeri, is the most widely spoken language in Azerbaijan. The language is spoken by 92.5% of the population of the country. More than half of these speakers are monolingual implying that they can only communicate in Azerbaijani. Being a member of the Turkic family, Azerbaijani is closely related to the Turkish language. ...
Several minority languages are spoken in Azerbaijan. Russian and Armenian are the most widely spoken minority languages in the country. Each of these two languages serves as the mother tongue of around 1.5% of the population of the country. Armenian is spoken almost exclusively in the break-away Nagorno-Kharabakh region of the country. The country ...
Several minority languages that are spoken in Azerbaijan are endangered languages. These languages are spoken by less than 10,000 to less than 1,000 people. The modernisation of the country is also further decreasing the popularity of these languages. Here is a description of some of these languages:
Immigrants to Azerbaijan speak their own languages or mother tongues. These include Assyrian, Belarusian, Georgian, Polish, Ukrainian, Iranian Persian, Dargwa, Tatar, Turkish, and some others. The number of speakers of these languages varies from a few hundred to a few thousand. The immigrant languages are used mainly at the homes of the immigrants...
Both Russian and English play significant roles in the education system of Azerbaijan. These languages are taught as second and third languages in the country’s schools. The popularity of English is also fast growing in the country since knowledge in the language opens up better opportunities in education and work worldwide for the youth of the nat...
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The Azerbaijanis speak the Azerbaijani language, a Turkic language descended from the branches of Oghuz Turkic language that became established in Azerbaijan in the 11th and 12th centuries CE.
Azerbaijani or Azeri (Azərbaycanca, Azərbaycan dili) is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran.
WHAT KIND OF LANGUAGE IS AZERBAIJANI? Azerbaijani belongs to the Turkic group of languages, which includes languages such as Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur, and Tatar. Turkic languages have been spoken for several millennia across vast territory from the Balkans to China.
The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, or Azerbaijani Turkish is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Dagestan in Russia.
Northern Azerbaijani is the official language of Azerbaijan. It is used at all levels of education, in the media, in business, and in government. Azerbaijani is the main language of instruction with most school children being taught in Azerbaijani. The rest are taught in Russian or in Armenian.
