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Endangered Iranian languages

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Persian dialect group spoken in the Caucasus

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

Areal group of Eastern Iranian languages

group of Northwestern Iranian dialects, variety of Zaza–Gorani languages spoken by Kurds

Southeastern Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

thumb|Seven Priests sounding horns at Wall of Jericho. From an illustrated manuscript of Emrani's Fath-nameh. Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term, Judeo-Persian refers to a number of Judeo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire, including Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews.

Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (, , ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. It belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words Juhuri and Juhuro translate as "Jewish" and "Jews".

Pamir language spoken in the Upper Lutkuh Valley (Tehsil Lotkuh) of Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa west of Garam Chashma in Pakistan

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

Pamir language natively spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan

Balochi dialect of Iran

Sindhi dialect in Iran, Pakistan and Oman

Northwestern Iranian language

Judeo-Shirazi is a variety of Fars. Some Judeo-Shirazi speakers refer to the language as Jidi, though Jidi is normally a designation used by speakers of Judeo-Esfahani. It is spoken mostly by Persian Jews living in Shiraz and surrounding areas of the Fars province in Iran.

Persian dialects in the Fars province of Iran

Kuwaiti Persian

persian variety historically spoken in Kuwait

number of related Jewish variants of Iranian languages

Judeo-Hamadani and Judeo-Borujerdi constitute a Northwestern Iranian language, originally spoken by the Iranian Jews of Hamadan and Borujerd in western Iran. Hamadanis refer to their language as ebri "Hebrew" or zabān-e qadim "old language". Though not Hebrew, the term ebri is used to distinguish Judeo-Hamadani from Persian.

Korouni dialect

Southern Kurdish dialect of Iran