Key characteristics of the Azerbaijani language

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Belongs to the Oghuz branch, closest to Turkish and Turkmen, with high mutual intelligibility with Turkish.

Historically written in Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic script; a modified Latin alphabet is used today.

Suffixes agree with the stem vowels, with more exceptions than Turkish owing to Persian influence.

Carries a significant layer of Persian vocabulary and some grammatical features, especially in literature and formal speech.

Two major dialect groups: Northern (Republic of Azerbaijan) and Southern (mainly Iran).

Complex words are formed through an extensive suffix system applied in a fixed order.

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