The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.)
Azerbaijani is a language of Azerbaijan. Roughly 90% of the population there speak it as a first language.
Azerbaijani (or Azeri) is spoken by roughly 30 million people, in at least 16 territories. The largest number of speakers are in Iran, mainly in the northwest. There are also large numbers of speakers in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Iraq and Armenia. It is closely related to Turkish and Turkmen.
