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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.
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.
Iranian languages - Indo-European, Dialects, Classification: All Iranian languages show in their basic elements the characteristic features of an Indo-European language.
Of the modern Iranian languages, by far the most widely spoken is Persian, which, as already indicated, developed from Middle Persian and Parthian (with elements from other Iranian languages such as Sogdian) as early as the 9th century ce.
A color-coded map of languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
Mar 18, 2015 · Detailed map of the languages spoken in Europe; Dialects and indigenous minority languages in Europe; The lexical distance among the languages of Europe; Critically and severely endangered languages
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The Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area covers the languages the South Caucasus, eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and northern Iran, an area involving heavy contact phenomena leading to many shared features among the following five different language families, and two genera of Indo-European: