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The Iranian languages are divided into the following branches: The Western Iranian languages, subdivided into: Southwestern, of which Persian (including the Dari and Tajik dialects) and Luri are the dominant members; Northwestern, of which the Kurdish languages are the dominant members. The Eastern Iranian languages, subdivided into:
Iranian languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains. Linguists typically approach the Iranian languages in.
Languages of Iran. Different publications have reported different statistics for the languages of Iran. There have been some limited censuses taken in Iran in 2001, 1991, 1986 and 1949–1954. The following are the languages with the greatest number of speakers (data from the CIA World Factbook):
- Old Persian. Period (attested): VI-IV centuries B.C. Region: Persis/Pārs (Fārs) Writing system: Old Persian cuneiform. Sources: Achaemenid inscriptions; Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Akkadian, Elamite loanwords.
- Avestan. Period: between 1500 and 500 BC. Region: unknown. Writing system: Avestan alphabet (51 letters). Sources: Avesta (the collection of the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism).
- Median. Period: around VIII-VI cc. BC. Region: Media Proper. Writing system: None. Sources (secondary): Greek, Old Persian, Aramaic, Assyrian texts. Grammars: Mayrhofer, M., Die Rekonstruktion des Medishcen, AÖAW (105), 1968, pp.
- Scythian Languages. Period: mid-1st mil. BC. Region: areas north of the Black Sea, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang (PRC) Writing system: None. Sources (secondary): Greek, Old Persian, Aramaic, Assyrian loanwords.
Made with Nunaliit. The Atlas of the Languages of Iran is a collection of interactive maps showing geographic distribution and linguistic typology of Iran’s 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 been strongly influenced by the neighbouring ...
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The three major variants of Persian are: Farsi (Iran), Tajiki (Tajikistan), and Dari (Afghanistan). However, the family also consists of languages in other regions, and can be classified as below. Branches of the Iranian Language Family. Southwestern. Persian. Farsi in Iran, Tajiki in Takikistan. Dari in Afghanistan.
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