Eastern Iranian languages

Pashto (, ; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan. It was also known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().

Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus

Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family and was originally spoken during the Avestan period ( BCE) by the Iranians living in eastern Greater Iran as evidenced from names in Avestan geography.

extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia

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extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia

Eastern Iranian language

East Iranian language spoken in the upper valley of the Yaghnob River in the Zarafshan area of Tajikistan by the Tajik-Yaghnobi people

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Areal group of Eastern Iranian languages

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extinct East Iranian language closely related to Sogdian

group of Eastern Iranian languages

Ormuri ( ), also known as Baraki or Bargista, is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. It is primarily spoken by the Burki people in the town of Kaniguram in South Waziristan. A small number of speakers are also found in Logar, Afghanistan. The language belongs to the Eastern-Iranian language group. The extremely small number of speakers makes Ormuri an endangered language that is considered to be in a "threatened" state.

Southeastern Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

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member of the Pamir subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken by native speakers along the Yazgulyam River, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Pamir language of Afghanistan and Tajikistan

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Waṇetsi (), also called Tarīno () and sometimes Tsalgari (), is an eastern Iranian language that is spoken mainly in northern regions of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is sometimes considered a distinct variety of Pashto and perhaps is a representation of a more archaic, or very early, form of Pashto. In some cases, Wanetsi shares similarities with the Pamir language of Munji, being a sort of bridge between the former and Pashto. However, Wanetsi is generally unintelligible to Pashto speakers.

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dialect of the Ossetian language

dialect of the Ossetian language

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