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Azeri language
Azeri is the official language of Azerbaijan. There are approximately 7 million native speakers of Azeri.
Phonology Based on information at http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_learn/latin_az_sounds (http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_learn/latin_az_sounds), Azeri phonology appears to be:
| 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 | ||||||
| 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.)
- azeri.org (http://www.azeri.org)
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