Western Iranian languages, the Glossary

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1. 90 relations: Abuzaydabadi dialect, Achomi language, Aimaq dialect, Alviri-Vidari dialect, Ashtiani language, Bakhtiari dialect, Balochi language, Bashkardi language, Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik dialect), Caspian languages, Caucasus, Central Asia, Dari, Daylami language, Dezfuli dialect, Dialects of Fars, Eastern Iranian languages, Garmsiri language, Gazi language, Gilaki language, Gorani language, Gorgani language, Gozarkhani language, Harzandi dialect, Hazaragi dialect, Hormozgan province, Indo-Iranian languages, Iranian languages, Iranian Persian, Isfahan province, Judeo-Hamedani–Borujerdi, Judeo-Iranian languages, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Shirazi, Judeo-Tat, Kajali language, Karan language, Karingani language, Kavir languages, Khalaj language, Khalaj people, Kho'ini dialect, Khunsari language, Khuzestan province, Kordali language, Koroshi dialect, Kuhmareyi language, Kumzari language, Kurdish language, Kurmanji, ... Expand index (40 more) »

Abuzaydabadi dialect

Abuzaydabadi (ابوزیدآبادی) is a dialect of Soi and the language of people in Abuzaydabad, a city in central Iran.

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Achomi language

Achomi (اچُمی), also known as Khodmooni and Larestani, is a Persian and Southwestern Iranian language spoken by people in southern Fars and western Hormozgan and by significant numbers of Ajam citizens in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and other neighbouring countries.

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Aimaq dialect

Aimaq or Aimaqi (Aimāqi) is the dominant eastern Persian ethnolect spoken by the Aimaq people in central northwest Afghanistan (west of the Hazarajat) and eastern Iran.

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Alviri-Vidari dialect

Alviri-Vidari (Tati: الویری-ویدری) is a dialect of the Tati language, spoken in Iran, near Saveh in the Markazi Province.

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Ashtiani language

Ashtiani (آشتیانی) is one of the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Ashtian and Tafresh of Iran.

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Bakhtiari dialect

Bakhtiari dialect is a distinct dialect of Southern Luri spoken by Bakhtiari people in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari, Bushehr, eastern Khuzestan and parts of Isfahan and Lorestan provinces.

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Balochi language

Balochi (rtl, romanized) is a Northwestern Iranian language, spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.

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Bashkardi language

Southern Bashkardi or Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern "Bashaka", is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan.

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Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik dialect)

Bukharian (autonym: Bukhori, Hebrew script: בוכארי, Cyrillic: бухорӣ, Latin: Buxorī) is a Judeo-Persian dialect historically spoken by the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia.

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Caspian languages

The Caspian languages are a branch of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in northern Iran and south-eastern Azerbaijan, south of the Caspian Sea.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Dari

Dari (endonym: دری), Dari Persian (فارسی دری,, or), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.

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Daylami language

The Daylami language, also known as Daylamite, Deilami, Dailamite, or Deylami (Persian: دیلمی, from the name of the Daylam region), is an extinct language that was one of the northwestern branch of the Iranian languages.

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Dezfuli dialect

Dezfuli (local names: دزفولی, dezfuli, or دسفیلی, desfili) is a Persian dialect spoken in Dezful in the province of Khuzestan in Iran.

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Dialects of Fars

Dialects of Fars are a group of southwestern and northwestern Persian dialects spoken in the central Fars province.

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Eastern Iranian languages

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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Garmsiri language

Garmsiri or BandariErik Anonby, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali & Amos Hayes (2019) The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI).

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Gazi language

Gazi is one of the Central Iranian varieties of Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue that together have 35,000 speakers.

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Gilaki language

Gilaki (گیلٚکي زٚوؤن ɡilɵki zɵvön) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken in south of Caspian Sea by Gilak people.

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Gorani language

Gorani (lit) also known by its main dialect; Hawrami (ھەورامی, Hewramî) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by ethnic Kurds in northeastern Iraq and western Iran and which with Zaza constitute the Zaza–Gorani languages.

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Gorgani language

Gorgani or Gurgani is the extinct language of the city of Gorgan in northern Iran, neighboring Mazanderani.

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Gozarkhani language

Gozarkhani, or Alamuti, is a moribund Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Gilaki.

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Harzandi dialect

Harzandi or Harzani (Tati: هرزندی، هرزنی) is a dialect of the Tati language, spoken in the northern regions of the East Azarbaijan province of Iran.

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Hazaragi dialect

Hazaragi (هزارگی|həzārəgi; آزرگی|āzərgi) is an eastern dialect and variety of the Persian language that is spoken by the Hazara people.

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Hormozgan province

Hormozgan Province (استان هرمزگان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Indo-Iranian languages

The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Iranian languages

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 natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.

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Iranian Persian

Iranian Persian (translit), Western Persian or Western Farsi, natively simply known as Persian (translit), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.

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Isfahan province

Isfahan Province (استان اصفهان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Judeo-Hamedani–Borujerdi

Judeo-Hamadani and Judeo-Borujerdi constitute a Northwestern Iranian language, originally spoken by the Iranian Jews of Hamadan and Borujerd in western Iran.

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Judeo-Iranian languages

The Judeo-Iranian languages (or dialects) are a number of related Jewish variants of Iranian languages spoken throughout the formerly extensive realm of the Persian Empire.

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Judeo-Persian

Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet).

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Judeo-Shirazi

Judeo-Shirazi is a variety of Fars.

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Judeo-Tat

Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (Cuhuri, Жугьури, ז׳אוּהאוּראִ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect of the Tat language historically spoken by the Mountain Jews, primarily in Azerbaijan, Dagestan, and today in Israel.

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Kajali language

Kajali is a moribund Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Talysh.

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Karan language

Karani, including the Koresh-e Rostam dialect, is a moribund Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Talysh.

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Karingani language

Karingani is a Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Talysh and the Harzandi dialect.

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Kavir languages

Kavir, or ambiguously Biyabanaki, is a group of Western Iranian languages spoken in the Kavir valley in central Iran.

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Khalaj language

Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran.

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Khalaj people

The Khalaj (Xalass; Xalajhâ) are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly reside in Iran.

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Kho'ini dialect

Kho'ini (alternatives: Xoini, Xo'ini, Khoeini, or Di) is a Tatic dialect or language spoken in northwestern Iran, and is one of many Western Iranian languages.

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Khunsari language

Khunsari dialect (گویش خوانساری) is a Central dialect within the Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Khansar, a town in the west of Isfahan Province of Iran.

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Khuzestan province

Khuzestan Province (استان خوزستان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Kordali language

Kordali (Kurdali), or Pahlavi, is one of the Kurdish languages.

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Koroshi dialect

Koroshi (Koroshi:, Balochi: کوروٚشی) is a Balochi dialect.

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Kuhmareyi language

Kuhmareyi (کهمره‌ای) is one of the languages of southwestern Fars.

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Kumzari language

Kumzari (کومزاری, اللغة كمزارية) is a Southwestern Iranian language that is similar to the Persian, Achomi and Luri languages.

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Kurdish language

Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a 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 Syria.

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Kurmanji

Kurmanji (lit), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions.

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Laki language

Laki (translit, لکی) is a vernacular that consists of two dialects; Pish-e Kuh Laki and Posht-e Kuh Laki.

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Lasgerdi language

Lasgerdi is one of the local languages of Semnan Province in northwestern Iran.

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Luri language

Luri (لری, لری) is a Southwestern Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs, an Iranian people native to Western Asia.

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Maraghei dialect

Maraghei (Tati: مراغی، مراقی) is a dialect of the Tati language, spoken in the Gilan Province, and upper Rudbar area (Rudbar-e Alamut).

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Markazi province

Markazi Province (استان مرکزی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Mazanderani language

Mazandarani (Mazanderani: مازِرونی, Mazeruni; also spelled Mazani (مازنی) or Tabari (تبری); also called Geleki) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people.

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Median (also Medean or Medic) was the language of the Medes.

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Middle Persian

Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.

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Natanzi language

Natanzi is one of the Central Iranian varieties of Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue that together have 35,000 speakers.

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Nayini language

Nayini (Na'ini), or Biyabanak, is one of the Central Iranian varieties of Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue that together have 35,000 speakers.

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Old Azeri

Old Azeri (also spelled Adhari, Azeri or Azari) is the extinct Iranian language that was once spoken in the northwestern Iranian historic region of Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan) before the Turkification of the region.

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Old Persian

Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire).

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Pahlavani language

Pahlavani is an extinct variety of Persian that was spoken in Afghanistan.

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Parthian language

The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region situated in present-day northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Razajerdi language

Razajerdi is a moribund Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Talysh.

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Sangsari language

Sangsari or Sangisari is an Iranian language spoken mainly in the Semnan and Tehran provinces of Iran, especially in the Sangesar (Mahdi Shehr) town and in several surrounding villages.

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Semnani language

Semnani (سمنی زفون, Semani zefön) (known also as Komisenian languages) is one of the local languages of the Semnan Province of Iran.

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Semnani languages

The Semnani languages or Komisenian languages are a group of Northwestern Iranian languages, spoken in Semnan province (only 68,700 native speakers in 2019) of Iran that share many linguistic features and structures with Iranian languages.

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Shabaki language

Shabaki is an Indo-Iranian language and belongs to the subgroup Zaza-Gorani of the Northwestern Iranian languages.

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Shahrudi language

Shahrudi is a moribund Northwestern Iranian language closely related to Talysh.

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Shushtari dialect

Shushtari (شوشتری) is a Persian dialect spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran.

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Sistani dialect

Sistani (سیستانی, also known as Sistuni (سیستونی) is a dialect continuum of the Persian language spoken by Sistani people in Iran and Afghanistan. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages.

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Sivandi language

Sivandi is an Iranian language spoken in Fars Province, Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue which together have 35,000 speakers.

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Soi language

Soi (Sohi) is one of the Central Iranian language varieties of Iran, one of five listed in Ethnologue that together have 35,000 speakers.

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Sorani

Sorani Kurdish (rtl, Kurmancîy Xwarû), also known as Central Kurdish, is a Kurdish dialect or a language spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran.

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Sorkhei language

Sorkhei is a Western Iranian language.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Southern Kurdish

Southern Kurdish (Kurdî Xwarîn) is one of the dialects of the Kurdish language, spoken predominantly in northeastern Iraq and western Iran.

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Spurious languages

Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in reputable works, while other research has reported that the language in question did not exist.

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Tajik language

Tajik, or Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks.

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Talysh language

Talysh (تؤلشه زوؤن, Tolışə Zıvon, Tолышә зывон) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan by around 500,000-800,000 people.

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Tat language (Caucasus)

Tat, also known as Caucasian Persian, Tat/Tati Persian,Gernot Windfuhr, "Persian Grammar: history and state of its study", Walter de Gruyter, 1979.

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Tati language (Iran)

The Tati language (Tati: تاتی زبون, Tâti Zobun) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people of Iran which is closely related to other languages such as Talysh, Zaza, Mazandarani and Gilaki.

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Vafsi dialect

Vafsi (Tati: ووسی, Vowsi) is a dialect of the Tati language spoken in the Vafs village and surrounding area in the Markazi province of Iran.

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West Asia

West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.

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Western Iranian languages

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) and Median.

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Zaza language

Zaza or Zazaki is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas, who are commonly considered as Kurds, and in many cases identify as such.

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Zaza–Gorani languages

Zaza–Gorani is a Kurdic linguistic subgroup of Northwestern Iranian languages.

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Zoroastrian Dari language

Zoroastrian Dari (دری زرتشتی or گویش بهدینان literally Behdīnān dialect) is a Persian dialect and a Northwestern Iranian ethnolect.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Iranian_languages

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