Eastern Iranian languages

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branch of Iranian languages language subgroup

Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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Statements (72)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Iranian languages → language subgroup →
ancestorOf	modern Eastern Iranian languages →
comparedWith	Western Iranian languages →
geographicDistribution	Afghanistan → Caucasus → Central Asia → Hindu Kush region → Pakistan → Pamir Mountains → Tajikistan → Xinjiang → eastern Iran → northeastern Iran →
hasExtinctLanguage	Alanian → Avestan → Bactrian → Khotanese → Khwarezmian → Saka languages → Scythian languages → Sogdian → Tumshuqese →
hasLivingLanguage	Ishkashimi → Munji → Ormur → Ossetian → Parachi → Pashto → Sarikoli → Shughni → Wakhi → Yaghnobi → Yidgha →
hasMember	Alanian → Avestan → Bactrian → Ishkashimi → Khotanese → Khwarezmian → Munji → Ormur → Ossetian → Pamiri languages → Parachi → Pashto → Saka languages → Sanglechi → Sarikoli → Scythian languages → Shughni → Sogdian → Tumshuqese → Wakhi → Yaghnobi → Yidgha →
hasProtoLanguage	Proto-Eastern Iranian →
hasSubgroup	Northeastern Iranian languages → Southeastern Iranian languages →
historicalPeriod	attested from at least the 1st millennium BCE →
linguisticFeature	often preserve complex consonant clusters → show extensive case systems in many members → typically exhibit SOV word order →
partOf	Indo-European language family → Indo-Iranian languages → Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian languages →
relatedTo	Indo-Aryan languages → Western Iranian languages →
subclassOf	Iranian languages →
writingSystemUsed	Arabic script for Pashto → Cyrillic script for Ossetian → Latin script for some modern standardized forms →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Iranian languages → Iranian languages ("Northeastern Iranian languages") →	hasBranch
Tajiks ("Eastern Iranian peoples") →	ancestralOrigin
Pashto language →	branchOf
Iranian languages ("Eastern Persian") →	hasMajorLanguage
Ossetians →	languageBranch
Pashtuns →	languageFamily
Pakhto →	subfamily
Ossetian language →	subfamilyOf