In Azerbaijan, two alphabets are employed for writing the Azerbaijani language: variations on the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

Since 19th century, there were efforts by some intellectuals like Mirza Feteli Ahundzade to create a Latin script for Azerbaijani. In 1922, a Latin script was created by Yeni türk əlifba komitəsi (New Turkish Alphabet Committee) in Baku. In 1929, the uniform Turkic alphabet was introduced to replace the until then used variety of the Arabic alphabet. Because Stalin wished to sever the ties between the Republic of Turkey and the Turkic peoples living within the Soviet Union, he decreed that only the Cyrillic alphabet might be used. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Azerbaijan gained its independence, one of the first laws passed in the new Parliament was the adoption of a modified Latin alphabet.

In Iranian Azerbaijan (Southern Azerbaijan), the Arabic alphabet is still in use.

From 1929 until 1939

Aa, Bв, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, , Hh, Ii, Ьь, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, , Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Vv, Xx, Yy, Zz,

From 1939 until 1991

Аа, Бб, Вв, Гг, Ғғ, Дд, Әә, Жж, Зз, Ии, Ыы, Јј, Кк, Ҝҝ, Лл, Мм, Нн, Оо, Өө, Пп, Рр, Сс, Тт, Уу, Үү, Фф, Хх, Һһ, Чч, Ҹҹ, Шш, ' (apostrophe)

From 1991 until 1992

Aa, Ää, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

Since 1992

Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

The Azerbaijani alphabet is the same as the Turkish alphabet, except for ə, x, and q, which do not exist in Turkish.

An interesting fact about the alphabet is the existence of schwa (Ə ə). When the new Latin script was introduced on December 25, 1991, A-umlaut was selected to represent the sound /æ/. However, on May 16, 1992, it was substituted with schwa. Although use of Ä ä (also used in Tatar and Turkmen) seems to be a more logical alternative opposed to schwa (schwa is absent in most word processors and causes problems in Turkish encoding), it was reintroduced, chiefly due to national pride because Ə ə existed in both post-Arabic alphabets (Latin and Cyrillic) of Azerbaijan.

Transliteration

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The Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets each have a different sequence of letters. The table below is ordered according to the latest Latin alphabet:

colspan=5 bgcolor="#ccccff"|Azerbaijani Alphabet Transliteration Table

Arabic	Latin	Cyrillic	Latin	IPA
—1929	1929–1939	1939–1991	1992—
ﺍ	A a	А а	A a
ﺏ	B в	Б б	B b
ﺝ	Ç ç	Ҹ ҹ	C c
چ	C c	Ч ч	Ç ç
ﺩ	D d	Д д	D d
	E e	Е е	E e
ﻉ	Ə ə	Ə ə	Ə ə
ﻑ	F f	Ф ф	F f
گ	G g	Ҝ ҝ	G g
ﻍ		Ғ ғ	Ğ ğ
ﺡ,ﻩ	H h	Һ һ	H h
ﺥ	X x	Х х	X x
	Ь ь	Ы ы	I ı
ﻱ	I i	И и	İ i
ﺝ		Ж ж	J j
ﻙ	K k	К к	K k
ﻕ	Q q	Г г	Q q
ﻝ	L l	Л л	L l
ﻡ	M m	М м	M m
ﻥ	N n	Н н	N n
ﻭ	O o	О о	O o
		Ө ө	Ö ö
پ	P p	П п	P p
ﺭ	R r	Р р	R r
ﺙ,ﺱ,ﺹ	S s	С с	S s
ﺵ	Ş ş	Ш ш	Ş ş
ﺕ,ﻁ	T t	Т т	T t
ﻭ	U u	У у	U u
ﻭ	Y y	Ү ү	Ü ü
ﻭ	V v	В в	V v
ﻱ	J j	Ј ј	Y y
ﺫ,ﺯ,ﺽ,ﻅ	Z z	З з	Z z

• Source: azeri.org
• Schwa in Azerbaijani

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