Indo-Iranian languages

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Indo-European
Indo-European languages
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Proto-Indo-Europeans
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Indo-European studies

Indo-Iranian languages (also called Aryan languages) are the eastern-most group of the living Indo-European languages. They are well represented among the oldest records of Indo-European languages. These originate in the area surrounding the southern part of the Urals, and early on split as the Indo-Iranian peoples settled east and south of the Caspian Sea in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. Their expansion seems to have been connected with the invention of the chariot.

Indo-Aryan languages:

Dardic languages:

Nuristani languages:

Iranian languages:

Eastern Iranian
- Northeastern
  - Avestan language (extinct)
  - Ossetian language
  - Sogdian, Yagnobi
  - Bactrian
- Southeastern
  - Pashto language
  - Pamiri
Western Iranian
- Northwestern
- Southwestern ("Persid")
  - Old Persian, Pahlavi, Persian language (including Dari, Tajik)
  - Tat language

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Indo-Iranian languages

See also