| South Azeri | ||
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| Spoken in | Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan | |
| Region | northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey | |
| Total speakers | 16 million worldwide[1] | |
| Language family | Altaic[2]
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | azb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
South Azeri (also known as South Azerbaijani) is a variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in northwestern Iran and neighboring regions of Iraq and Turkey. Other communities exist in Afghanistan and Syria. Dialects include Aynallu, Karapapakh, Tabriz, Afshari, Shahsavani, Moqaddam, Baharlu, Nafar, Qaragozlu, Pichagchi, Bayat, Qajar. An Arabic script is used to write South Azeri.[3] South Azeri is influenced by the Persian language. While there is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility between South Azeri and North Azeri, there are also morphological and phonological differences between the two varieties, so much so that ISO 639-3 lists them as two varieties of a single macrolanguage—Azerbaijani.[4]
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  | ISO 639-3 entry for the Azerbaijani macrolanguage - ISO 639 code sets |
| | ISO 639-3 entry for South Azerbaijani - ISO 639 code sets |
| | Ethnologue entry for South Azerbaijani - Ethnologue report for language code:azb |
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