Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Turkish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Osmanly language
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Salam
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
necəsən
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
yaxşı gecə
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Please
lütfen
  
lütfən
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
üzr
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
xudafiz
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Bağışlayın
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Derbent
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Russia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Gazakh
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Baku
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
26.00 million
  
39
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
French Name
turc
  
azéri
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Azerbaijani
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Azerbaijani
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
az
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
aze
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
aze
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
aze
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
azer1255
  
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
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Turkish and Azerbaijani 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 Turkish and Azerbaijani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Azerbaijani language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Azerbaijani word for "Thank You" is Təşəkkür edirəm. Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Azerbaijani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Azerbaijani Difficulty
The Turkish vs Azerbaijani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Azerbaijani 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 Turkish and Azerbaijani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Azerbaijani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Azerbaijani time required is 44 weeks.