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  1. The Atlas of the Languages of Iran is a collection of interactive maps showing geographic distribution and linguistic typology of Iran’s languages.

  2. Language policy and planning of Iran. The current language policy of Iran is addressed in Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Articles 15 & 16). It asserts that the Persian language is the lingua franca of the Iranian nation and as such, required for the school system and for all official government communications ...

  3. Of the ancient Iranian languages, only two are known from texts or inscriptions, Avestan and Old Persian, the oldest parts of which date from the 6th century bce. Avestan (an extinct East Iranian language) was probably spoken in northeastern Iran, and Old Persian (an extinct West Iranian language) is known to have been used in southwestern Iran.

  4. Farther south is the wholly West Iranian language Balochi, mentioned above. Despite the vast area over which Balochi is spoken, its numerous dialects are all mutually intelligible. The most recent study of the Balochi dialects divides them into six groups: Eastern Hill dialects; Rākhshānī dialects including that of Mary; Sarawānī; Kechī ...

  5. The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, [1] [2] are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau . The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE – 900 ...

    English
    Zaza
    Sorani Kurdish
    Kurmanji Kurdish
    beautiful
    rınd, xasek
    ciwan, nayab
    rind, delal, bedew, xweşik
    blood
    goni
    xwên
    xwîn, xûn
    bread
    nan, non
    nan
    nan
    bring
    ardene
    /anîn, hawerdin, hênan
    anîn
  6. The online Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) is a collection of interactive language distribution maps and linguistic maps of the languages spoken across Iran. [1] The atlas is developed and maintained at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Center (GCRC) [2] at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The maps on the atlas are searchable ...

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  8. Iranian languages - Indo-European, Dialects, Classification: All Iranian languages show in their basic elements the characteristic features of an Indo-European language. Apart from the extensive borrowing of Arabic words in Modern Persian, the Iranian languages have scarcely been affected by unrelated languages, with the notable exception of Ossetic, which has been strongly influenced by the ...

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