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As of 2008, there were an estimated 150–200 million native speakers of the Iranian languages. Ethnologue estimates that there are 86 languages in the group.
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):
Mar 12, 2024 · 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.
Although Persian (Farsi) is the predominant and official language of Iran, a number of languages and dialects from three language families— Indo-European, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic —are spoken. Roughly three-fourths of Iranians speak one of the Indo-European 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.
- Erik Anonby
- Online atlas
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.
Only four of the many modern Iranian languages are the official languages of the state in which they are spoken. The chief of these is Persian (known in Persian as Fārsī), a West Iranian language and the national language of Iran , which is spoken by about 30,000,000 people as a native language.
