Iron Ossetian

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Iron
Native toRussia, Georgia
RegionNorth Ossetia, South Ossetia
Native speakers
(5/6 of Ossete speakers cited 1981)[1]
Dialects
  • Ir
  • Tagaur
  • Alagir
  • Kurtat
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologiron1242

Iron (Ossetic: Ирон, Iron or Ирон ӕвзаг, Iron evzag) is one of the two main dialects of the Ossetic language along with Digor[2] spoken in the Caucasus. The majority of Ossetians speak Iron, notably in the East, South and Central parts of North Ossetia–Alania, while in the West the Digor dialect is more prevalent. The Iron dialect has been the basis of the Ossetian written language since the abolition of the Digor standard in 1939.[2]

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  1. ^ Bernard Comrie, 1981. The Languages of the Soviet Union, p. 164.
  2. ^ a b Thordarson, Fridrik. 1989. Ossetic. Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. by Rudiger Schmitt, 456-79. Wiesbaden: Reichert. [1]
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