Iranian languages

:The language of Iran is not Iranian, but rather Persian (also called Farsi). This article deals with the Iranian language group.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The Iranian languages are a part of the Indo-European language family with estimated 150-200 million native speakers. The Iranian language group is part of the generally agreed-upon superstock of the Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages, and as Gathic Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit, along with Greek and Hittite, are the first to be written languages. The Indo-Iranian languages probably originated in Central Asia; the Andronovo culture is the near-universally preferred candidate for the common Indo-Iranian culture ca. 2000 BC. The superstock made at least a three-way split, into the Iranian, Indo-Aryan (Indic), possibly the Dardic group, and probably the Nuristani languages as the speakers of Proto-Indo-Iranian moved south and south-east.

Related Topics:
Indo-European language - Indo-Iranian language - Avestan - Vedic Sanskrit - Greek - Hittite - Andronovo culture - 2000 BC - Dardic group - Nuristani languages

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~