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Iranian languages
The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family with
an estimated number of 150-200 million native speakers today [citation needed].
Together with the Indo-Aryan languages they form the Indo-Iranian languages
group, a branch of Indo-European. With Avestan and Old Persian, the Iranian
languages comprise two of the oldest recorded Indo-European languages (along
with the Indic language Vedic Sanskrit, Greek, and Hittite).
Language Family
Trees
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian.
Iranian Languages & Scripts
An educational site about all aspects of Iranian languages, dialects, and
scripts throughout the ages. Learn the modern Persian language and its new
UniPers alphabet. Use the concise online dictionaries.
List of Iranian
languages
The Iranian languages include some 84 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects
spoken by about many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the
Indo-Iranian language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and
individual languages.
The Persian
Encyclopedia
The Persian Encyclopedia, is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative
Encyclopedias written in the Persian language. It is in two volumes and is
based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions of The Columbia Viking Desk
Encyclopedia. It was published under the supervision of Gholamhossein Mosaheb,
who started the project in 1955 in Franklin Book Programs office in Tehran. But
Mosaheb left the project after the first volume (words starting with Alef to
Seen) was published in 1966, but before the second.
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