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Iranian peoples

Iranian peoples are peoples who speak an Iranian language and/or belong to the Iranian stock. Iranian peoples in older times included:

Iranian peoples in modern times include:

Iranian peoples and their language is Aryan. Actually the word Iran itself means "the land of Aryans". Aryans (Indo-Iranians) are a branch of the Indo-European peoples. Most of the Iranian peoples live today in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, western and northern Pakistan, Caucasus and Kurdish areas.

External links

  • THE ORIGIN OF THE PRE-IMPERIAL IRANIAN PEOPLES http://home.btconnect.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/Oric.Basirov/ori
    gin_of_the_iranians.htm


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