Editing Azerbaijan (section)

===Languages===
{{Main|Languages of Azerbaijan}}
The official language is [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], a [[Turkic languages|Turkic language]]. Approximately 92% of the national population speak it as their [[mother tongue]].<ref name=UNLANGDATA>[http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a27%3bcountryCode%3a31%3brefYear%3a1999%2c2009%3bareaCode%3a0%3bsexCode%3a0&c=2,3,10,15,16&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1 Population by language, sex and urban/rural residence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123020533/http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:27%3BcountryCode:31%3BrefYear:1999,2009%3BareaCode:0%3BsexCode:0&c=2,3,10,15,16&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1 |date=23 January 2023 }}, UN Data. Retrieved 27 August 2016.</ref> Russian and [[Armenian language|Armenian]] (only in Nagorno-Karabakh) are still spoken in Azerbaijan. Each is the mother tongue of around 1.5% of the national population.<ref name="UNLANGDATA" /> In 1989, Armenian was the majority language in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, spoken by about 76% of the regional population.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Donald E. |author-link=Donald E. Miller |first2= Lorna Touryan |last2=Miller |date=2003 |title=Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope |location=[[Berkeley, California]] |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |page=7 |isbn=978-0-520-23492-5}}</ref> After the first Nagorno-Karabakh war, native speakers of Armenian composed around 95% of the regional population.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nkrusa.org/country_profile/overview.shtml |title=Nagorno Karabakh Republic – Country Overview |publisher=Nkrusa.org |access-date=6 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419102410/http://www.nkrusa.org/country_profile/overview.shtml |archive-date=19 April 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

A dozen other minority languages are spoken natively,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=AZ |title=Ethnologue report for Azerbaijan |publisher=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |access-date=3 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218031424/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=AZ |archive-date=18 December 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> including [[Avar language|Avar]], [[Budukh language|Budukh]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages">{{cite web|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/chris.html|title=Endangered languages in Europe and North Asia|access-date=4 July 2015|archive-date=24 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124100509/http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/chris.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Juhuri language|Juhuri]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> [[Khinalug language|Khinalug]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> [[Kryts language|Kryts]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> [[Lezgian language|Lezgin]], [[Rutul language|Rutul]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> [[Talysh language|Talysh]], [[Tat language (Caucasus)|Tat]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> [[Tsakhur language|Tsakhur]],<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> and [[Udi language|Udi]].<ref name="Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages" /> All these are spoken only by small minority populations, some of which are tiny and decreasing.<ref>Clifton, John M., editor. 2002 (vol. 1), 2003 (vol. 2). ''Studies in languages of Azerbaijan''. Baku, Azerbaijan and Saint Petersburg, Russia: Institute of International Relations, Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and North Eurasian Group, SIL International.</ref>