North Azerbaijani (also known as North Azeri) is a variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in Azerbaijan and neighboring regions of the Caucasus. Expatriate communities exist in Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. There are reported to be some North Azerbaijani speakers remaining in Armenia. Dialects include Quba, Derbend, Baku, Shamakhi, Salyan, Lenkaran, Qazakh, Airym, Borcala, Terekeme, Qyzylbash, Nukha, Zaqatala, Qabala, Yerevan, Nakhchivan, Ordubad, Ganja, Shusha, Karapapak. Dialect differences are slight.
There are significant differences between North Azerbaijani and South Azerbaijani in phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, and loanwords.[1] North Azerbaijani is the national language of Azerbaijan and the Baku variety is the basis of Standard Azerbaijani. It is officially written with a Roman script, but the older Cyrillic script is still widely used.[2] There is a fair degree[quantify] of mutual intelligibility between North and South Azerbaijani.[citation needed] Ethnologue considers them to be distinct languages.[3]
[edit] North Azerbaijani alphabet
The North Azerbaijani alphabet includes both the dotted and dotless I and the schwa.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Schönig (1998), pg. 248.
- ^ ISO 639-3 entry for the Azerbaijani
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