Home›Iranian Languages›Language Family (Classification)Browse ByLanguage Family (Classification)This dimension links a language to the wider family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes Spanish as "a Romance language of the Indo-European language family," placing it inside two nested groupings at once. Browsing by language family gathers languages that share the same distant common ancestor.FactsLanguage Family (Classification)SourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Speakers (Millions)Well-attested200 1Language Family (Classification)Filter Results5 entriesRegionAllAfghanistan (2)Asia (4)Central Asia (3)China (1)Iran (2)Kurdistan (2)Oman (2)Pakistan (2)Speaker Count BandAll16,000,000 to 59,000,000 (3)5,600,000 to 15,000,000 (2)60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 (1)Official StatusAllNo Official Status (1)Official Language (3)StatusAllExtinct (2)Liturgical / Learned Use Only (1)Living (3)Script UsedAllArabic Script (3)Avestan Alphabet (1)Cyrillic Script (2)Latin Script (2)Manichaean Alphabet (2)Pahlavi Scripts (1)Sogdian Script (1)Syriac Alphabet (1)Language KindAllExtinct (3)Safe (3)TonalAllNot Tonal (1)Word OrderAllSOV (3)Period Start YearAll-1500 (1)-1000 (1)224 (1)1501 (1)Classification ConfidenceAllEstablished (4)Number of LanguagesAll96 (1)321 (1)586 (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (3)Speaker CountAll40,000,000 (1)200,000,000 (1)1,700,000,000 (1)3,238,000,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareEastern IranianLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryIndo-EuropeanLanguage Family (Classification)2 entriesIndo-IranianLanguage Family (Classification)3 entriesIranianLanguage Family (Classification)1 entryWestern IranianLanguage Family (Classification)4 entriesSources1. Wikipedia: Iranian Languagestier 2WikipediaInfobox, Speakers fieldQuote, Infobox, Speakers field200 millionView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.