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  1. 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 ...

  2. There are two main dialects of Ossetic: the eastern, known as Iron, and the western, known as Digor (Digoron). Of those, Digor is the more archaic, Iron words being often a syllable shorter than their Digor counterparts—e.g., Digor madä, Iron mad “mother.”. Iron is spoken by the majority of Ossetic speakers and is the basis of the ...

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  4. The Atlas of the Languages of Iran is a collection of interactive maps showing geographic distribution and linguistic typology of Iran’s languages.

  5. 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. A dialect of Persian known as Dari is recognized ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages [1] [2] or collectively the Aryan languages [3]) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.5 billion speakers, predominantly in South Asia, West Asia and parts of Central Asia .

  8. Ronald Eric Emmerick The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Iranian languages - Indo-European, Dialects, Classification: All Iranian languages show in their basic elements the characteristic features of an Indo-European language. Apart from the extensive borrowing of Arabic words in Modern Persian, the Iranian languages have scarcely been ...

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