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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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.
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Tati
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Western Iranian
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Mazanderani
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LINGUIST List
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Iranian
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Parthian Empire
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Avestan
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Assyrians
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Cimmerians
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Encyclopædia Iranica
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Zoroastrian Dari
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Sorkhei
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Iranian Persian
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Semnani
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Prods Oktor Skjaervo
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Koresh-e Rostam
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Iran
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Russian
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Persian
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