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Azerbaijani alphabet

The basic Azerbaijani alphabet used in Iran, lacking ؽ and ۆ, among others

The Azerbaijani alphabet (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan əlifbası, آذربایجان اَلیفباسؽ, Азəрбајҹан әлифбасы) has three versions which includes the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets.

North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet. After the fall of Soviet Union this superseded previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic scripts.

In Iran, a modified Persian script has always been used been used for the South Azerbaijani language.[1]

Azerbaijanis of Dagestan still use the Cyrillic script.[2][better source needed]

  1. ^ Heyat, Javad (2001). "اوُرتوقرافی سمیاری نین آلدیغی قرارلار" [Azeri Arabic Turk standard of writing] (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Archive of issues of the newspaper Dərbənd (Дәрбәнд)".

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