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Iranian

Eurasian Language Families

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
Region
Mainly the Iranian Plateau, spoken natively by the Iranian peoples 1
Speaker Count
200,000,000 1
Proto-Language Status
Reconstructed as Proto-Iranian, itself descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian 1
Connections

Ancestor Of

Eastern Iranian, Language Families

Eastern Iranian (Pashto, Ossetian, Pamir languages) is one of the two main geographic branches of Iranian alongside Western Iranian.

Descends From

Indo-Iranian, Language Families

Iranian, grouping Persian, Pashto, Kurdish and their relatives, is one of the two main branches of Indo-Iranian alongside Indo-Aryan.

Includes

Avestan, Languages
Source Avestan (Wikipedia)
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Includes

Avestan

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Classical Armenian

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Classical Persian

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Gorani

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Kurmanji Kurdish

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Middle Persian

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Old Avestan (Gathic)

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Persian Language

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Persians

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Proto-Indo-European

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Sogdian

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Younger Avestan

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Found In

Asia

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Source Glottolog
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Iranian Languages
Wikipedia
  • Lead 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: speakers
    200 million
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Wikidata: Iranian
Wikidata Q33527, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Avestan (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Avestan, Lead
Quote, Includes: Avestan, Lead
It belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family
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