Western Iranian languages
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The Western Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC).
The two sub-branches are:
The opposition of these two dialect groups is apparent already in Old Iranian times, from the opposition of Old Persian and Median.
[edit] References
- Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. Schmitt (1989), p. 99.
