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6 days ago · The CIA World Factbook (which is based on 2013 statistics) gives the following numbers for the languages spoken in Iran today: Persian, Luri, Gilaki and Mazandarani 66%; Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages 18%; Kurdish 10%; Arabic 2%; Balochi 2%; others 2% (Armenian, Georgian, Circassian, Assyrian, etc.).
5 days ago · Turkic languages are spoken by some 200 million people. The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish, spoken mainly in Anatolia and the Balkans; its native speakers account for about 38% of all Turkic speakers, followed by Uzbek.
3 days ago · The largest Turkic group is the Azerbaijanis, a farming and herding people who inhabit the border provinces in the northwestern corner of Iran. Two other Turkic ethnic groups are the Qashqāʾī , in the Shīrāz area to the north of the Persian Gulf , and the Turkmen , of Khorāsān in the northeast.
4 days ago · The Turkmen language, another Turkic language, is spoken in Iran by only a small number of Turkmen. Of the Semitic languages —from the Afro-Asiatic family— Arabic is the most widely spoken, but only a small percentage of the population speaks it as a native tongue.
1 day ago · Not all the nine Turkoman tribes live in Iran. The most important Iranian Turkoman tribes are Kuklans and Yamotes. The Kuklans have six branches, and live in the central and eastern Turkoman Sahra. The Yamotes have two large clans, the Atabai and Jaafarbai, and live to the west of Turkoman Sahra.
1 day ago · The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct .
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