Ancient Iranian peoples

Ancient Iranian peoples who immigrated to the Iranic linguistic domination lands in the second millennium B.C. first appear in Assyrian records in the 9th century BC. They remain dominant throughout Classical Antiquity in Scythia and Persia.

Persians
Medes
Parthians
Parni
Scythians
Sarmatians, including the Rhoxolani, Iazyges, Amazons, Siraces, and some regard the Alans as a subset of the Sarmatians as well
Bactrians
Khwarezmians
Alans
Saka
Sogdians
Azaris
Massagetae
Pallavas, descended from Persian invaders of India
Parama Kambojas, of the Allai valley/Allai mountains, north of Hindukush. In ancient Sanskrit texts, their territory was known as Kumudadvipa and it formed the southern tip of the Sakadvipa or Scythia. In classical literature, this people are known as Komedes.
Corduchi [1]
Sagarthians (whose name survives in the name of the Zagros Mountains).

Ancient Indo-Iranian group having Iranian as well as Indian affinities

Kambojas: Greater probability is that the Pashtuns (traditionally known as Afghans) are descendents of the Ashvakas (the Ashvakayanas and Ashvayanas of Panini or the Assakenois and Aspasios of Arrian) as one powerful school of modern scholars think. The name Afghan is said to have derived from the Ashvakan of Sanskrit texts (Dr J. W. McCrindle etc).

Possible Ancient Iranian peoples whose designation is uncertain

[edit] Literature

H. Bailey, "ARYA: Philology of ethnic epithet of Iranian people", in Encyclopaedia Iranica, v, pp. 681-683, Online-Edition, Link
A. Shapur Shahbazi, "Iraj: the eponymous hero of the Iranians in their traditional history" in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online-Edition, Link
R. Curzon, "The Iranian Peoples of the Caucasus", ISBN 0-7007-0649-6
Jahanshah Derakhshani, "Die Arier in den nahöstlichen Quellen des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr.", 2nd edition, 1999, ISBN 964-90368-6-5
Richard Frye, "Persia", Zurich, 1963