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IRANIAN LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The modern Persian language spoken in Iran
Synonyms:
Iranian; Iranian language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Iranian language" is a kind of...):
Indo-Iranian; Indo-Iranian language (the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Iranian language"):
Avestan; Zend; Gathic (an ancient Iranian language)
Farsi; Persian (the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms)
Dari; Dari Persian (an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan)
Tadzhik; Tajik; Tajiki (the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan)
Kurdish (an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia)
Balochi; Baluchi (an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf)
Pahlavi; Pehlevi (the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries)
Afghan; Afghani; Pashto; Pashtu; Paxto (an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan)
Ossete (a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia)
Scythian (the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians)
