Southwestern Iranian languages

E23168
branch of Iranian languages language group

Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Southwestern Iranian languages canonical 18
Middle Persian 2
Northern Luri 2

Statements (60)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Iranian languages ⓘ
language group ⓘ
distinguishedBy development of voiced fricatives from Proto-Iranian stops ⓘ
loss of certain Proto-Iranian consonant clusters ⓘ
relatively simple nominal case system ⓘ
hasMajorLanguage Achomi language ⓘ
Bakhtiari dialect ⓘ
Bandari dialect ⓘ
Tajiks ⓘ
surface form: Bukharan Tajik

Bushehri dialect ⓘ
Classical Persian language ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Dari Persian

Dezfuli dialect ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Hamedani Persian

Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Herati Persian

Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Isfahani Persian

Judeo-Persian language ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Kabuli Persian

Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Kermani Persian

Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Khuzestani Persian

Kumzari language ⓘ
Luri language ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Mashhadi Persian

Middle Persian language ⓘ
Southwestern Iranian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Northern Luri

Old Persian ⓘ
surface form: Old Persian language

Persian language ⓘ
Qazvini Persian ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Shirazi Persian

Shushtari dialect ⓘ
Southwestern Iranian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Southern Luri

Tajik language ⓘ
Talysh ⓘ
surface form: Talysh language

Tat language ⓘ
Tehran dialect ⓘ
surface form: Tehrani Persian

Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Yazdi Persian
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Arabic script

Cyrillic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
surface form: Persian alphabet
historicalCenter Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form: Persian Empire

Sasanian Empire ⓘ
languageFamily Iranian languages ⓘ
linguisticAncestor Proto-Indo-European ⓘ
surface form: Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-Iranian language ⓘ
Proto-Iranian language ⓘ
partOf Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ
primaryRegion Afghanistan ⓘ
Azerbaijan ⓘ
Iran ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Oman ⓘ
Persian Gulf ⓘ
surface form: Persian Gulf region

Tajikistan ⓘ
subclassOf Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
surface form: Western Iranian languages
usedAs administrative languages in various Iranian empires ⓘ
literary languages in the Islamic Golden Age ⓘ

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Persian language → subfamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Persian language → hasDialect → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Luri Persian
Persian language → hasAncestor → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Middle Persian
Persian language → developedFrom → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Middle Persian
Gorskie Yevrei → historicalLanguageFamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Tehran dialect → languageFamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Southwestern Iranian languages → hasMajorLanguage → Southwestern Iranian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Luri
Southwestern Iranian languages → hasMajorLanguage → Southwestern Iranian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Luri
Hazaragi → languageBranch → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Old Persian → branchOf → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Tat language → subgroup → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Dzhidi → subfamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Luri language → subgroupOf → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Luri language → hasDialect → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Luri
Hazaragi dialect → languageSubgroup → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Middle Persian language → subBranch → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
subject surface form: Middle Persian
Dezfuli dialect → languageFamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Qazvini Persian → subclassOf → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Kumzari language → languageFamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Shushtari dialect → languageBranch → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Luri → subgroupOf → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Tati language → distinctFrom → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tat language (Southwestern Iranian)
Tats → languageBranch → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Northern Tat → languageFamily → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
Southern Tat → languageBranch → Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ