Indo-European · ISO 639-3 oss · os
Iron Ossetic Language Ирон ӕвзаг
Iron Ossetic is an Indo-European language spoken by about 538,000 people in 2 countries. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Iron Ossetic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
- Sogdic-Ossetic
- Ossetic
- Modern Ossetic
- Iron Ossetic
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Iron Ossetic language
Iron Ossetic (Ирон ӕвзаг) is spoken by about 538,000 people, which makes it the 496th most spoken language in the world — just behind Udmurt (540,000) and ahead of Kaqchikel (500,000). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Modern Ossetic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Iron Ossetic spoken?
Iron Ossetic is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Russia (366,134) and Georgia (107,821).
Share of the population that speaks Iron Ossetic: Russia 0.3% (366,134) and Georgia 2.2% (107,821).
Iron Ossetic is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Georgia.
Writing system and status
Iron Ossetic is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, Mazanderani, Gilaki, Southern Balochi, Southern Kurdish and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 os, ISO 639-3 oss.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.