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Iranian languages - Dialects, Variations, Classification: The six modern Iranian languages discussed above are the only ones that have an established literary tradition. They are not, however, homogeneous, each having its own dialect divisions.
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, 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.
Scholars have reconstructed the sound system and some of the grammatical features of Common Old Iranian, the protolanguage that preceded these dialects. The phonological system that underlay Common Old Iranian was by and large maintained everywhere throughout the Iranian-speaking world.
The local dialect of Arabic spoken in Iran is Khuzestani Arabic, but the varieties of Arabic taught across Iran to students in secondary schools, regardless of their ethnic or linguistic background, are Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, the latter a liturgical language of Islam.
Characteristics of the Iranian languages. 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 ...
Hawrāmi: Language, Dialect, or Accent and Its Position in the Iranian Languages; A Construction Analysis of the Final Sentence of the Chapters of Dēnkard, Book IX; An Inscription in the Shadow (DNF: The Newly Founded Achaemenid Inscription) Semiotics of Mythical Birds in Iranian Art and Literature
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The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects, standard varieties, and even from older variates of Persian.