Azerbaijani. (17th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mokari, Payam Ghaffarvand; Werner, Stefan
• Is Part Of: Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Volume 47:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 207
• Page End: 212
• Publication Date: 2017-05-17
• Subjects: Phonetics -- Periodicals; 414.8
• DOI: 10.1017/S0025100317000184
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0025-1003

Abstract

Abstract : The Azerbaijani, Azerbaijanian or Azeri language belongs to the western group of the southwestern, or Oghuz, branch of the Turkic language family and is mainly spoken in Azerbaijan and Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and over 80% of its population use it as their first language (Johanson2010 ). Among non-Persian languages in Iran, Azerbaijani, with approximately 15–20 million native speakers, has the largest number of speakers (Crystal2010 ). In total, more than 50 million people speak Azerbaijani (Khalilzadeh2013 ).