Azerbaijani Turkish, is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It is called Az?rbaycan dili in Azerbaijani. Iranian Azerbaijanis often call it Türki.

Some dialects of the language are spoken in many parts of Iran, most notably in Iranian Azerbaijan, where it is the most dominant language and a lingua franca.^[3] Iran is home to the majority of Azeri speakers in the world. The language is also spoken in Russia"s Republic of Dagestan, south-eastern Georgia, northern Iraq, and eastern Turkey.

Estimates of the CIA factbook gives the number of speakers around 25 million.^[4] It is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch, closely related to Turkish and also historically influenced by Persian and Arabic.

In addition, Azerbaijani is mutually intelligible with other Oghuz languages, which include the Turkish language as it is spoken in Turkey, the Caucasus, Cyprus, the Balkans, Iraq, Syria, and Western Europe, as well as the Turkmen language.

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