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Kuhmareyi (Persian: کهمرهای) is one of the languages of southwestern Fars. It is a cluster of disparate dialects; the one illustrated here is the Davani dialect (Davani: devani; Persian: دوانی, transliteration: Davāni) of the village of Davan, 12 kilometers north of Kazerun city in southern Iran. Davani had an estimated 1,000 ...
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 ...
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This chapter provides an overview of Old Persian, an Old Iranian language belonging to the Indo-European family, which was used in southwestern Iran during the mid- to late first millennium BC. The history of the decipherment of the Achaemenid cuneiform inscriptions written in Old Persian is reviewed.
The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southwestern languages, rather than a genetic group. The languages are as follows: Old Iranian period. Northwest: Median†, etc. Southwest: Old Persian†, etc. Middle Iranian period. Northwest: Parthian†, etc. Southwest: Middle Persian†, etc
Languages of Iran. Languages spoken in the Islamic Republic of Iran belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-European languages spoken by majority of Iranians and the Turkic languages spoken by many significant minority of Iranians. The other language families are Afro-Asiatic, Caucasian and Dravidian.
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. Other ancient Iranian languages must have existed, and indirect evidence is available concerning some of these.
