|Native to|| Iran,
also in parts of neighboring countries such as:
|Native speakers||25 million  (date missing)|
|Writing system||Latin alphabet for North Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan, Perso-Arabic script for South Azerbaijani in Iran, and, formerly, Cyrillic alphabet for North Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani variants)|
|Official language in|| Azerbaijan (North Azerbaijani),
Iraq (South Azerbaijani; official in areas where Iraqi Turkmen form a majority)[source?]
The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkic, or Azerbaijani Turkic, is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. North Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan. This type is also spoken in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, south-eastern and eastern Georgia, north eastern Turkey and in some parts of Ukraine. South Azerbaijani is the type of Azerbaijani spoken in northwestern Iran.