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In which countries are Iranian languages spoken?
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Iranian languages, which form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, are spoken across a wide geographic area.
Primary countries where these languages are spoken include:
Additionally, Iranian languages are spoken in parts of:
- Iraq
- Turkey
- Pakistan
- Scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains1
Historically, these languages were also spoken in the steppes to the north, extending from modern Hungary to Xinjiang (formerly East Turkistan). Modern examples of languages within this group include Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Ossetic.2