Iranic languages used to be spread as far west as Hungary (Jasz) , into Africa (Alani) and as far east as Mongolia (Scythians).
Forsaken-Link-5859 on
Almost touching India, at least there is probably still some parsi speakers there
RJ-R25 on
One of the better iranic languages map
I’m quite surprised that Tajikistan despite being right next to so many Turkic empire didn’t get assimilated linguistically and culturally and are still genetically a bit distinct even now
omeretalla on
Well surrounding Turkic languages are heavily influenced by the farsi as well.
islander_guy on
Link with better resolution?
tyspwn on
Fun fact: Ossetia the northernmost surviving Iranic speakers call themselves Iryston which is like Iranistan
Hedi45 on
Categorizing Luri under Farsi should be a crime
nsnyder on
I wish the colors matched the tree on all branches, rather than just the top half.
DukeOfBattleRifles on
Using ethnic maps for languages is dumb. With the same logic most of USA should speak German.
TurkicWarrior on
Farsi, Dari, Hazaragi and Tajiki shouldn’t count as one. Yeah, Dari and Persian may have high mutual intelligibility in formal written form but for everyday people? It isn’t really mutual intelligible, and definitely not between Persian and Tajik speaker
Few-Advice-6749 on
It would be really interesting to see a map like this but the former (or max) geographical range of iranic languages since so much of the Eastern Europea/Pontic steppe and Central Asia once spoke an iranic tongue
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Iranic languages used to be spread as far west as Hungary (Jasz) , into Africa (Alani) and as far east as Mongolia (Scythians).
Almost touching India, at least there is probably still some parsi speakers there
One of the better iranic languages map
I’m quite surprised that Tajikistan despite being right next to so many Turkic empire didn’t get assimilated linguistically and culturally and are still genetically a bit distinct even now
Well surrounding Turkic languages are heavily influenced by the farsi as well.
Link with better resolution?
Fun fact: Ossetia the northernmost surviving Iranic speakers call themselves Iryston which is like Iranistan
Categorizing Luri under Farsi should be a crime
I wish the colors matched the tree on all branches, rather than just the top half.
Using ethnic maps for languages is dumb. With the same logic most of USA should speak German.
Farsi, Dari, Hazaragi and Tajiki shouldn’t count as one. Yeah, Dari and Persian may have high mutual intelligibility in formal written form but for everyday people? It isn’t really mutual intelligible, and definitely not between Persian and Tajik speaker
It would be really interesting to see a map like this but the former (or max) geographical range of iranic languages since so much of the Eastern Europea/Pontic steppe and Central Asia once spoke an iranic tongue