Countries
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Turkish Language Association
  
Interesting Facts
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Turkish
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Osmanly language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Salam
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
necəsən
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
yaxşı gecə
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Axşamınız xeyir
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Sabahınız xeyir
  
günaydın
  
Please
lütfən
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
üzr
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
xudafiz
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Bağışlayın
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Derbent
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Russia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Gazakh
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baku
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
26.00 million
  
39
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
azéri
  
turc
  
German Name
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Azerbaijani
  
Turkish
  
Origin
16th Century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
az
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aze
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
aze
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
aze
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
azer1255
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Azerbaijani and Turkish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Azerbaijani and Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Azerbaijani and Turkish language. Azerbaijani word for "Hello" is Salam or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Azerbaijani Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Azerbaijani vs Turkish Difficulty
The Azerbaijani vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Azerbaijani Alphabets and Turkish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Azerbaijani and Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Azerbaijani and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Azerbaijani is 44 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.