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Language policy and planning of Iran. The current language policy of Iran is addressed in Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Articles 15 & 16). It asserts that the Persian language is the lingua franca of the Iranian nation and as such, required for the school system and for all official government communications ...
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.
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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.
No definitive dialect classification has yet been made, nor indeed has any attempt at systematic classification of the whole range of Iranian languages won wide acceptance. The usual practice, followed here, is simply to list the main languages in groups of varying size, arranged on a roughly geographic basis.
The Atlas of the Languages of Iran is a collection of interactive maps showing geographic distribution and linguistic typology of Iran’s languages.
The online Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) is a collection of interactive language distribution maps and linguistic maps of the languages spoken across Iran. [1] . The atlas is developed and maintained at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Center (GCRC) [2] at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Iranian languages - Indo-European, Dialects, Classification | Britannica. Contents. Home Geography & Travel Languages. Characteristics of the Iranian languages. All Iranian languages show in their basic elements the characteristic features of an Indo-European language.