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14.1 Introduction. Indo-Iranian is mainly divided into the two big sub-branches of Indo-Aryan and Iranian. 1 IIrn. languages are first attested in the fifteenth century BCE in the Hurrian state of Mit (t)an (n)i and surrounding areas through divine, throne and personal names as well as through hippological terms.
Dec 15, 2006 · Origins of the Iranian languages. vi(5). Indo-Iranian. vi(6). Old Iranian languages. OVERVIEW. The term “Iranian language” is applied to any language which is descended from a proto-Iranian parent language (unattested by texts) spoken, presumably, in Central Asia (q.v.) in the late 3rd to early 2nd millennium B.C.E.
May 2, 2020 · Southern Luri dialects are mostly spoken in the Iranian provinces Kohgiluyeh and Boir Ahmadi and Shiraz (north-west). This includes the territory between Lordegan, Yasuj, Dehdasht and Nurabad. The speakers generally belong to the Mamasani, Kohgiluyehi or Boir-Ahmadi ethnic groups. Grammar. See Northern Luri dialects.
Sino-Tibetan includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, Karen, Boro and numerous languages of the Tibetan Plateau, southern China, Burma, and North east India.. Indo-European. The Indo-European languages are primarily represented by the Indo-Iranian branch, with its two main subgroups: Indo-Aryan (represented by a large number of languages in the subcontinent such as Syloti, Hindi–Urdu, Bengali ...
India - Indo-European, Languages, Dialects: The Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family is the largest language group in the subcontinent, with nearly three-fourths of the population speaking a language of that family as a mother tongue. It can be further split into three subfamilies: Indo-Aryan, Dardic, and Iranian. The numerous languages of the family all derive from Sanskrit, the ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Persian language, member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family. It is the official language of Iran, and two varieties of Persian known as Dari and Tajik are official languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively. Modern Persian is most closely related to Middle and Old Persian, former languages of the region of ...
There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch. [1] All Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European , spoken sometime during the Neolithic or early ...
