The location of the Azerbaijani language among world languages

Azerbaijani language is the state language of the Azerbaijan Republic and basic communicative means of the different people living in Azerbaijan. 

At the same time Azerbaijani language is the native language of the more than 30 millions Azerbaijanians living in Islamic Republic of Iran. This language is being used also by 200 thousand people once moved to Iraq (probably this move occurred at middle ages. As per other assumption turkmans are descendants of ancient Turks being a neighbor of ancient Sumerians). They call themselves as kerkuk and live mainly in areas of Kerkuk, Mosul, Nineva, Telafer, Jinjar etc. 

Azerbaijani language have been included in Oghuz semi group of Turkic languages group of  Ural-Altaic languages family and comprises south-western branch of area of Turkic languages together with  Turkish, Turkmen and Gagauz languages.     

From traditional – morphologic or typological classification Azerbaijani language has been included to the group of agglutinative languages. Compared to inflected languages (Indo-European, Semito-Hamitic etc languages) roots of all words in Azerbaijani language are words with independent lexical and grammatical meaning, but grammatical meanings and grammatical connections are expressed always by single meaning (monosemantic) suffixes coming after root of word and base of word. 

According to recent information, in total over 51 millions Azerbaijanian live in the world. 9 millions of them settled in Azerbaijan Republic, and the rest in different countries of the world.  The number of the Azerbaijanis living in the world countries has been specified approximately as the following: 

1) USA-100.000 person

2) Australia -8000 persons

3) Austria -10.000 persons

4) Albania -12.000 persons

5) Argentina -12.000 persons

6) Algeria -260.000 persons

7) Afghanistan -450.000 persons

8) Bangladesh -175.000 persons

9) Belgium -13.000 persons

10) Burma -8000 persons

11) Bulgaria -65.000 persons

12) Brazil -75.000 persons

13) Bhutan -1500 persons

14)  Great Britain-170.000 person

15) Hungary -27.000 persons

16) Greece -13.000 persons

17) Denmark -6.000 persons

18) Egypt -900.000 persons

19) Indonesia  - 44.000 persons

20) Jordan  - 450.000 persons

21) Iraq -1.000.000 person

22) Iran  -30.000.000 person

23) India - 300.000 persons

24) Ireland -4.000 persons

25) Spain - 14.000 persons 

26) Italy - 33.000 persons

27) Yemen Arab Republic - 62.000 persons

28) Canada - 170.000 persons

29) China - 30.000 persons

30) Kuwait -19.000 persons

31) Malta -25 persons

32) Mexico -27.000 persons

33) Mongolia- 5000 persons

34) Norway -50.000 persons

35) UAE - 55.000 persons

36) Oman -19.000 persons

37) Pakistan -650.000 persons

38) Poland -12.000 persons

39) Portugal -7000 persons

40) Romania -45.000 persons

41) Saudi Arabia - 40.000 persons

42) Syria -95.000 persons

43) Sudan -17.000 persons

44) Turkey -3.000.000 person

45) Finland -12.000 persons

46) France -70.000 persons

47) Germany -300.000 persons

48) Czech Republic -2000 persons

49) Slovakia -2000 persons

50) Sweden- -2000 persons

51) Yugoslavia -6.000 persons

52) Japan -10.000 persons

53) Ukraine -500.000 persons

54) Belarus -7000 persons

55) Russian Federation- 3.000.000 persons 

56) Uzbekistan -60.000 persons

57) Kazakhstan- 100.000 persons

58) Georgia -600.000 persons

59) Lithuania -2000 persons

60) Moldova -5000 persons

61) Latvia -4000 persons

62) Kyrgyzstan -16.000 persons

63) Tajikistan -14.000 persons

64) Turkmenistan - 4500 persons

65) Estonia -300 persons

66) Azerbaijan Republic- over 9.000.000 persons