Azerbaijani
A Turkic language spoken in Azerbaijan and Iran's northwestern provinces — about 23 million speakers, closely related to Turkish.
8 languages containing the letter Z — each with origin, classification, and notes.
Below are languages that contain the letter Z anywhere in the name. Each of the 8 languages below opens to a full profile.
| Azerbaijani | Berber (Tamazight) | Czech | Dzongkha |
| Kazakh | Kyrgyz | Uzbek | Zulu |
A Turkic language spoken in Azerbaijan and Iran's northwestern provinces — about 23 million speakers, closely related to Turkish.
A family of Afroasiatic languages indigenous to North Africa — collectively called Amazigh — with official status in Morocco and Algeria.
A West Slavic language closely related to Slovak — official in the Czech Republic and famed for the unique "ř" consonant heard nowhere else.
The national language of Bhutan — a Sino-Tibetan language of the southern Himalayas closely related to classical Tibetan.
A Turkic language and the official language of Kazakhstan — about 13 million speakers, transitioning from Cyrillic to a Latin-based script by 2025.
A Turkic language and the official tongue of Kyrgyzstan — closely related to Kazakh, with about 5 million speakers.
A Turkic language and the most-spoken Turkic language after Turkish — Uzbekistan's official language, with about 34 million speakers.
A Nguni Bantu language and the most widely spoken first language in South Africa — official, distinctive for its iconic click consonants.
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