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Which language family includes the Iranian languages?
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The Iranian languages belong to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.1
Within this classification, the Indo-Iranian branch is divided into two primary subbranches: the Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages and the Iranian languages.1