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Language code: aze

Technical information about ISO 639 language code aze

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The table below provides technical details for the Azerbaijani language, designated by the aze code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

aze

Name

Official

Azerbaijani

Native

Azərbaycan dili

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Eastern AzerbaijaniWestern AzerbaijaniNorthern AzerbaijaniSouthern Azerbaijani
Related languages
TurkishTurkmenCrimean TatarKumyk
Key facts
Belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language familyModern standard form is based largely on the Baku varietyWritten with three different scripts in the 20th century: Arabic, Cyrillic, and now LatinExhibits vowel harmony and agglutinative morphologyVocabulary shows heavy historical borrowing from Persian, Arabic, and Russian
Sample phrase

Salam, necəsən?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Azerbaijani language, identified by the code aze, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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