Iranian languages

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branch of Indo-European languages branch of Indo-Iranian languages

Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages, historically spoken across Iran, Central Asia, and surrounding regions, including major languages such as Persian (Farsi), Pashto, and Kurdish.

Aliases (2)

Iranian ×1
Old Persian ×1

Statements (85)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Indo-European languages → branch of Indo-Iranian languages →
ancestor	Proto-Indo-European language → Proto-Indo-Iranian language → Proto-Iranian language →
geographicDistribution	Afghanistan → Caucasus → Central Asia → India → Iran → Iraq → Pakistan → Persian Gulf region → Syria → Tajikistan → Turkey →
hasBranch	Eastern Iranian languages → Northeastern Iranian languages → Northern Western Iranian languages → Southeastern Iranian languages → Southern Western Iranian languages → Western Iranian languages →
hasISO639FamilyCode	ira →
hasMajorLanguage	Avestan language → Balochi language → Dari Persian → Eastern Persian → Gilaki language → Gorani language → Hazaragi dialect → Kurdish Kurmanji dialect → Kurdish Sorani dialect → Kurdish languages → Luri language → Mazanderani language → Middle Persian language → Old Persian language → Ossetian language → Pamir languages → Parthian language → Pashto language → Persian language → Saka languages → Sarmatian language → Scythian languages → Sogdian language → Tajik language → Talysh language → Tat language (Iranian) → Wakhi language → Western Persian → Yaghnobi language → Zazaki language →
hasOfficialStatusIn	Afghanistan → Iran → Iraq (regional) → Pakistan (provincial) → Tajikistan →
hasStage	Middle Iranian languages → New Iranian languages → Old Iranian languages →
historicalRegion	Bactria → Greater Iran → Scythia → Sogdia →
linguisticFeature	SOV basic word order → development of postpositions from earlier case endings → extensive use of suffixes → rich system of consonants → split ergativity in some Eastern Iranian languages → use of ezafe construction in many Western Iranian languages →
relatedTo	Indo-Aryan languages → Nuristani languages →
subclassOf	Indo-European languages → Indo-Iranian languages →
usedInReligion	Islam → Manichaeism → Zoroastrianism →
writingSystemUsed	Arabic script → Avestan script → Cyrillic script → Latin script → Old Persian cuneiform → Pahlavi scripts → Persian alphabet →

Referenced by (44)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alans → Baloch people → Bukharan Jews → Gorani → Iazyges → Judeo-Persian → Judeo-Tat → Juhurim → Kurmanji → Medes → Ossetians → Pakhto → Pashto language → Persian language → Sorani → Southwestern Iranian languages → Tehran dialect → Wakhi ("Iranian") → Ирон →	languageFamily
Aimaqs → Hazaragi → Tajiks →	languageBranch
Nuristani languages → Prasun language →	distinctFrom
Central Asia → South Asia →	hasMajorLanguageFamily
Eastern Iranian languages → Northwestern Iranian languages →	subclassOf
Gilaki → Tat language →	subfamily
Perso-Arabic script →	adaptedToPhonologyOf
Persian language ("Old Persian") →	hasAncestor
Indo-Iranian languages →	hasSubfamily
South Asian ethnic groups →	includesMajorLanguageFamily
Iranian plateau →	languageFamilyHistoricallyDominant
Tocharian languages →	lexicalBorrowingFrom
Gandhari Prakrit →	lexicalInfluenceFrom
Greater Iran →	mainLanguageFamily
Brahui people →	neighboringLanguageFamily
Southwestern Iranian languages →	partOf
Göklen dialect →	regionallyInfluencedBy
Nuristani languages →	relatedTo
Indo-Iranian languages →	subdivision
Cyrillic script →	usedBy