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Where is Iron Ossetian spoken?

Iron Ossetian (ирон диалект) is an Indo-European language, spoken in Russia and Georgia. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Iron Ossetian is spoken

Iron Ossetian is spoken in 2 countries: Russia and Georgia. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Russia0.3%450,627
Georgia2.2%107,821

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Iron Ossetian has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Iron Ossetian?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Iron Ossetian sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Iron Ossetian as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Indo-Iranian
  4. Iranian-Nuristani
  5. Iranian
  6. Central Iranian PBS
  7. Sogdic-Ossetic
  8. Ossetic
  9. Modern Ossetic
  10. Iron Ossetian

Related languages

Other languages in the Modern Ossetic group:

More about Iron Ossetian

Codes: ISO 639-3 oss, Glottolog iron1242. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Iron Ossetian

Where is Iron Ossetian spoken?

Iron Ossetian is spoken in Russia and Georgia. Unicode CLDR puts it at 0.3% of the population of Russia, which is about 450,627 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Iron Ossetian in?

Glottolog places Iron Ossetian in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian-Nuristani, Iranian, Central Iranian PBS, Sogdic-Ossetic, Ossetic and Modern Ossetic.

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