List Of Indo-Iranian Languages
The Indo-Iranian languages include some 296 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages. The Indo-Iranian branch is the largest part of the Indo-European language family
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Iranian languages
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