Azeri language

Azeri is the official language of Azerbaijan and a minority language in Iran (Northwestern provinces). There are approximately 7 million native speakers of Azeri. The language is closely related to Turkish.

It may be worth noting that some sources like Mosahab Persian Dictionary consider the languagues Azeri and Azerbaijani to be different languages, the former being an older language only spoken by few rural communities in Iran's Azerbaijan, and the later the modern language.

Phonology

Based on information at http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_learn/latin_az_sounds.html, Azeri phonology appears to be:

Consonants

		bilabial	dental	alveolar	velar	uvular	glottal
stops	voiceless	p	t		k	q
	voiced	b	d		g
affricates	voiceless			tS
	voiced			dZ
fricatives	voiceless	f	s	S	x		h
	voiced	v	z	Z	G
nasals		m	n
lateral			l
rhotic			r

Vowels

	front		central		back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
high	i	y			M	u
mid	e	9				o
low	{		a

(The above uses the SAMPA coding scheme.)

External Links

• azeri.org\n