
The Azeri language (a.k.a. Azerbaijani, Azari, Azeri Turkic, Azerbaijani Turkic) belongs to the Turkic language family and is spoken in southwestern Asia (mainly Azerbaijan and NW Iran). Azeri served as a lingua franca throughout most of Transcaucasia, in Southern Dagestan, Turkish Armenia, Kurdistan and Iranian Azerbaijan in the 16th-20th century. Russia’s 19th century conquest of the South Caucasus split Azeri speakers in the Soviet Union and Iran, where the former promoted the language’s ...
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