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Western Iranian
Geographic
distribution
Southwest Asia, Central Asia, Caucasus, and western South Asia
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
    • Iranian
      • Western Iranian
Subdivisions
  • Northwestern Iranian
  • Southwestern Iranian
Glottolognort3177  (Northwestern Iranian)
sout3157  (Southwestern Iranian)
Map of modern Iranian languages on the Persian plateau. The Western Iranian languages are shaded yellow/green.

The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.

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Western Iranian languages

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spoken by the Baloch and belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the family. As an Iranian language, it is classified in the Northwestern group. Glottolog...

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Persian language

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[fɒːɾˈsiː] ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric...

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Zaza language

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Gippert, Jost (1999), Iranische Sprachen / Iranian Languages Position of Zaza language in Iranian Languages Zaza at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Kirmanjki...

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Semnani language

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Persian dialect, the language belongs to the Northwestern branch of the Western Iranian languages. Like other Caspian languages, it bears some resemblance...

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Bactrian language

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(Bactrian: Αριαο, romanized: ariao, [arjaː], meaning "Iranian") is an extinct Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria...

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Kurdish language

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Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and...

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Pamir languages

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The Pamir languages are an areal group of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River...

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Median language

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Median language was (just like for all other Old Iranian languages) or whether the Medes themselves nominally distinguished it from the languages of other...

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Languages of Pakistan

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List of ancient Iranian peoples

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list of ancient Iranian peoples includes the names of Indo-European peoples speaking Iranian languages or otherwise considered Iranian ethnically or linguistically...

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Nuristani languages

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Luri language

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with other Iranian languages, Luri has been less affected by foreign languages such as Arabic and Turkic. Nowadays, many ancient Iranian language characteristics...

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Avestan

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Avestan (/əˈvɛstən/ ə-VESS-tən) is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan...

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Ethnicities in Iran

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peoples. Arabs account for about 2–3% of the Iranian population. The remainder, amounting to about 1% of Iranian population, consists of a variety of minor...

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Old Persian

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Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages...

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Kavir languages

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Biyabanaki, is a group of Western Iranian languages spoken in the Kavir valley in central Iran.[citation needed] The Kavir languages are Farvi (~500 speakers)...

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