IRANIAN LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)