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Which Indo-European branch includes Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Ossetic?
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Approximate locations of Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia.
Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Ossetic belong to the Iranian subgroup, which is a major branch of the Indo-Iranian language family.12
The Indo-Iranian group itself constitutes the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European language family. Within this classification, the Iranian languages are distinct from the other primary subbranch, Indo-Aryan.31