Iron Ossetian

Eastern dialect of Ossetian

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Iron

ирон ӕвзаг (iron ӕvzag)
Pronunciation| [iron ɐvzag]
Native to| North Caucasus
Region| North Ossetia, South Ossetia

Native speakers

| (5/6 of Ossete speakers cited 1981)[1]

Language family

Indo-European

* Indo-Iranian
* Iranian
* Eastern
* Ossetian
* Iron

Dialects|

* Ir
* Tagaur
* Alagir
* Kurtat

Language codes
ISO 639-3| –
Glottolog| `iron1242`

Iron Ossetian (Ossetian: ирон ӕвзаг, romanized: iron ӕvzag pronounced [iˈron ɐvˈzäɡ]) also known as Iron Ossetic or Iron-Ossetic, 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]

## See also

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* Iron people

## Notes

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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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