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What are the two main dialects of Ossetic?
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The Ossetic language has two major dialects:
- Iron: This is the eastern dialect and is spoken by the majority of Ossetic speakers. It serves as the basis for the modern literary language, which is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.12
- Digor: This is the western dialect. It is considered more archaic than Iron; for example, Iron words are often a syllable shorter than their Digor counterparts.12