iranian language

Noun
  1. The modern Persian language spoken in Iran (synset 106986270)
    is a type of: indo-iranian, indo-iranian language - the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
    subtypes:
    • avestan, zend - an ancient Iranian language
    • gathic - an ancient Iranian language
    • farsi, persian - the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
    • dari, dari persian - an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan
    • tadzhik, tajik, tajiki - the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan
    • kurdish - an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia
    • balochi, baluchi - an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf
    • pahlavi, pehlevi - the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries
    • afghan, afghani, pashto, pashtu, paxto - an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan
    • ossete - a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia
    • scythian - the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians
    same as: iranian

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