Bible portions 1979-1996. Work in progress. Azerbaijan, and southern Dagestan, along the Caspian coast in the southern Caucasian Mts. Altaic , Turkic, Southern, Azerbaijani. High literacy rate.
Official script is Roman.
Cyrillic script is widely used in Azerbaijan. Used in schools, publications, radio, television. Dialect differences are slight. Everyone is familiar with the standardized written and spoken forms. The Qazakh dialect is not especially related to the Kazakh language.