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Locale Az 001

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Use when working with the Azerbaijani locale (`az-001`) — its endonym Azərbaycan dili, Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the Azerbaijani locale — endonym Azərbaycan dili, written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: az-001
  • ISO 639-1: az
  • ISO 639-3: aze
  • Script: Latn (Latin)
  • Region: 001 (World)
  • Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 23,000,000
  • L2 (additional): 8,000,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 31,000,000

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

  • one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
  • other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili) is a Turkic language written in the Latin script in the Republic of Azerbaijan (2001 alphabet) and in an Arabic-based script in Iran (South Azerbaijani). Translate for the target script and country. This guidance covers the Republic of Azerbaijan standard.

Translate ideas, not words.

  • Azerbaijani is agglutinative with vowel harmony and subject-object-verb order. English prepositional phrases become case suffixes; relative clauses become participial phrases before the noun.
  • Do not translate through Russian or Turkish. Azerbaijani differs from Turkish in vocabulary, spelling, and grammar (ə, x, q, c, and ç usage).
  • Re-express idioms by meaning.

Grammar and register.

  • Vowel harmony; no gender; no plural after numerals; apostrophes with proper nouns.
  • Siz is the polite or plural form for UI and public text; sən is informal.

Orthography and typography.

  • Use ə, ğ, ı, ö, ü, ş, ç, x, q; never replace them with ASCII look-alikes. Case mapping for i/İ and ı/I is locale-sensitive, as in Turkish.
  • Currency manat (₼); decimal comma; dates 17 oktyabr 2026; 24-hour clock; quotation marks «…» or “…”.

Common pitfalls

  • Using Turkish spelling or Russian vocabulary.
  • Wrong casing of dotted and dotless i.
  • Using the Arabic-script form for the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • Nasimi Institute of Linguistics, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Microsoft Localization Style Guide, Azerbaijani (https://aka.ms/azerbaijani-styleguide)

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