Southwestern Iranian languages | DisamKB

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.

Aliases (4)

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 → Bukharan Tajik → Bushehri dialect → Classical Persian language → Dari Persian → Dezfuli dialect → Hamedani Persian → Herati Persian → Isfahani Persian → Judeo-Persian language → Kabuli Persian → Kermani Persian → Khuzestani Persian → Kumzari language → Luri language → Mashhadi Persian → Middle Persian language → Northern Luri → Old Persian language → Persian language → Qazvini Persian → Shirazi Persian → Shushtari dialect → Southern Luri → Tajik language → Talysh language → Tat language → Tehrani Persian → Yazdi Persian →
hasWritingSystem	Arabic script → Cyrillic script → Latin script → Persian alphabet →
historicalCenter	Achaemenid Empire → Persian Empire → Sasanian Empire →
languageFamily	Iranian languages →
linguisticAncestor	Proto-Indo-European language → Proto-Indo-Iranian language → Proto-Iranian language →
partOf	Indo-European languages → Indo-Iranian languages → Iranian languages →
primaryRegion	Afghanistan → Azerbaijan → Iran → Iraq → Oman → Persian Gulf region → Tajikistan →
subclassOf	Western Iranian languages →
usedAs	administrative languages in various Iranian empires → literary languages in the Islamic Golden Age →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Southwestern Iranian languages ("Southern Luri") → Southwestern Iranian languages ("Northern Luri") →	hasMajorLanguage
Old Persian →	branchOf
Persian language ("Middle Persian") →	developedFrom
Persian language ("Middle Persian") →	hasAncestor
Persian language ("Luri Persian") →	hasDialect
Gorskie Yevrei →	historicalLanguageFamily
Hazaragi →	languageBranch
Tehran dialect →	languageFamily
Persian language →	subfamily
Tat language →	subgroup