Iranian is a branch of the Indo-Iranian family, itself part of Indo-European, comprising languages spoken across the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and parts of the Caucasus and South Asia. Its major members include Persian, Pashto, Kurdish and Balochi.
Facts
RegionMainly the Iranian Plateau, spoken natively by the Iranian peoples 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusReconstructed as Proto-Iranian, itself descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian 1 Connections
Ancestor Of
Eastern Iranian (Pashto, Ossetian, Pamir languages) is one of the two main geographic branches of Iranian alongside Western Iranian.
Descends From
Iranian, grouping Persian, Pashto, Kurdish and their relatives, is one of the two main branches of Indo-Iranian alongside Indo-Aryan.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Iranian Languages
WikipediaLead section, paragraph 1: definition and region sentence
The Iranian languages, or Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, mainly in the Iranian Plateau.
Classification section: Proto-Iranian descent sentence
The Iranian languages all descend from a common ancestor: Proto-Iranian, which itself evolved from Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Infobox, Native speakers field
est. 200 million
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