Iranic languages
branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Iranic languages refers to a family of languages, meaning they are related to one another and developed from a common source.[2] They descend from a common ancestor which is identified as Proto-Iranic.[3]
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The Iranic languages are also commonly identified as the Iranian languages. However, some scholars have argued that since the term Iranian is already in use for another meaning, the term Iranic languages should be used for the language family and its speakers (the Iranic peoples[4][5]), while the term Iranian should be used for anything about the country Iran.[6][7]
The Iranic languages, alongside the Indo-Aryan languages and Nuristani languages, make up the larger Indo-Iranic family of languages.[8]
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Divisions
Like many other language families and subfamilies, the Iranic languages are divided according to geographic origins. These include northern,[9] southern, eastern and western.[2]
Further reading
- Sokolova, V. S. "New information on the phonetics of Iranic languages." Trudy Instituta jazykoznanija NN SSR (Moskva) 1 (1952): 178-192.
- Jügel, Thomas. "Word-order variation in Middle Iranic: Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, and Sogdian." Word order variation: Semitic, Turkic, and Indo-European languages in contact, Studia Typologica [STTYP] 31 (2022): 39–62.
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