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    Iran's ethnic diversity means that the languages of Iran come from a number of linguistic origins, although the primary language spoken and used is Persian...
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    The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken...
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    The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC)...
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    The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant...
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    The Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages, having emerged during the Middle Iranian era (4th century BC to 9th century AD)...
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  • Dictionary of Languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages, Columbia University Press, 2004, pg 496. "Azari, the Old Iranian Language of Azerbaijan...
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    Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly...
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    Mazandarani and Gilaki languages belong to North-western Iranian languages currently spoken along the coast of Caspian Sea. These languages which enjoy many...
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    remains close to the language of Hafez. Like most Jewish languages, all the Judeo-Iranian languages contain great numbers of Hebrew loanwords, and are...
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    The Caspian languages are a branch of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in northern Iran and south-eastern Azerbaijan, south of the Caspian Sea. They...
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    country, and other Turkic languages and dialects are found in various regions, especially Azerbaijan. Notable minority languages in Iran include Armenian, Georgian...
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    symbols. Iranian Azerbaijanis (Persian: آذربایجانی‌های ایران; Azerbaijani: ایران آذربایجانلیلاری [iˈɾɑːn ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑnlɯlɑɾɯ]) are Iranians of Azerbaijani...
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    Turkmen language comes second after the Azerbaijani language in terms of the number of speakers of Turkic languages of Iran. The standardized form of Turkmen...
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    Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) is a collection of interactive language distribution maps and linguistic maps of the languages spoken across Iran. The...
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  • The Iran Language Institute, abbreviated as ILI (Persian: کانون زبان ایران) is a state-owned, non-profit organization founded in 1979 in Iran with the...
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    Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and...
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  • individual languages Dari and Iranian Persian. The code pes is used for Iranian Persian, exclusively. On November 19, 2005, the Academy of Persian Language and...
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    Sanskrit (of the Rigveda) and Old Avestan (of the Gathas), its descendants. It is the ancestor of Indo-Aryan languages, the Iranian languages, and the...
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    allophones of a labiodental approximant /ʋ/. In comparison with other Iranian languages, Luri has been less affected by foreign languages such as Arabic...
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    between formal written Persian of Afghanistan and Iran; the languages are mutually intelligible. Dari is the official language for 35 million Afghans in Afghanistan...
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  • subgroup of Northwestern Iranian languages. They are usually classified as a non-Kurdish branch of the Northwestern Iranian languages but most of their speakers...
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    speaking languages belonging to the Iranian languages which is a branch of Indo-European languages. Iran hosts one of the largest refugee population in the...
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    Christianity in Iran dates back to the early years of the religion during the time of Jesus, predating Islam. The Christian faith has always comprised...
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    The Turkic language of Azerbaijan gradually supplanted the Iranian languages in what is now northwestern Iran, and a variety of languages of the Caucasus...
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    to Gilaki, and the two languages have similar vocabularies. The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share certain typological...
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    Persian and Southwestern Iranian language spoken by people in southern Fars and western Hormozgan and by significant numbers of Ajam citizens in the UAE...
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    Proto-Iranian or Proto-Iranic is the reconstructed proto-language of the Iranian languages branch of Indo-European language family and thus the ancestor of...
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  • cultures of the world then and today. Several languages are spoken throughout Iran. Languages from the Iranian, Turkic, and Semitic language families...
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    considered a language in its own right. Like other Turkic languages spoken in Iran, such as the Azerbaijani language, Qashqai uses a modified version of the Perso-Arabic...
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    Alexander Romance. The vocabulary of the language has historically been influenced by Western Middle Iranian languages, particularly Parthian; its derivational...
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