Bahasa Indo-Iran
Bahasa Indo-Iran (juga bahasa-bahasa Indo-Iranic[2][3]atau bahasa Arya[4] ) merupakan cabang terbesar dan paling tenggara yang masih wujud dalam keluarga bahasa Indo-Eropah. Mereka mempunyai lebih daripada 1.5 bilion pembesar suara, merentang dari Eropah (Romani), Kurdistan (Kurdi dan Zaza–Gorani) dan Caucasus (Ossetia) ke arah timur ke Xinjiang(Sarikoli) dan Assam (Assam), dan selatan ke Sri Lanka (Sinhala) dan Maldives (Maldive), dengan cawangan menjangkau sejauh Oceania dan Caribbean untuk Fiji Hindi dan Caribbean Hindustan masing-masing. Selain itu, terdapat komuniti diaspora besar penutur Indo-Iran di barat laut Eropah (United Kingdom), Amerika Utara (Amerika Syarikat, Kanada), Australia, Afrika Selatan dan Wilayah Teluk Parsi (Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Arab Saudi).
| Indo-Iranian | |
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| Indo-Iranic (Aryan) | |
| Taburan geografi: | South, Central, Western Asia, South East Europe and the Caucasus / Total speakers = approximately 1.5 billion in 15 countries |
| Klasifikasi bahasa: | Indo-European
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| Bahasa-proto: | Proto-Indo-Iranian |
| Pembahagian: |
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| ISO 639-5: | iir |
| Glottolog: | indo1320[1] |
 Distribution of the Indo-Iranian languages | |
Bahasa
The Indo-Iranian languages consist of three groups:
- Indo-Aryan/Indic
- Iranian/Iranic
- Nuristani
Indo-Iranian languages are spoken by more than 1.5 billion people. The languages with the most speakers are a part of the Indo-Aryan group: Hindi–Urdu (~590 million as the Indian census often includes Bhojpuri (40 million), Awadhi (40 million), Maithili (35 million), Marwari (30 million), Rajasthani (20 million), Chhattisgarhi (18 million) and Kumaoni (2.1 million) as dialects),[5] Bengali (205 million),[6] Punjabi (100 million), Marathi (90 million), Gujarati (50 million), Odia (35 million), Sindhi (25 million), Assamese (24 million), Sinhala (19 million), Nepali (17 million), and Bishnupuriya (12 million).[7] Among the Iranian branch, major languages are Persian (90 million),[8] Pashto (40 million), Kurdish (35 million),[9] and Balochi (8 million). There are also many smaller languages.