Key facts
- Native to
- Media
- Region
- Ancient Iran
- Ethnicity
- Medes
- Era
- 500 BCE – 500 CE
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Median
- Dialects
- Razi
- Writing system
- Linear Elamite ?
- Iso 639 3
- xme
- Linguist list
- xme
- Glottolog
- None
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Medes
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
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Encyclopedic overview
Median (also Medean or Medic) is an extinct Iranian language which was spoken by the ancient Medes. It belongs to the Northwestern branch of the Iranian language family, which includes many other much more recently attested and different languages such as the Tati dialects, Talysh, the central Iranian dialects, the Caspian dialects Gilaki, Mazanderani and Zaza.
Attestation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Median” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.