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Iranian

branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family
Language language_family Q33527
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Summary

Iranian is a language family[1]. Iranian ranks in the top 2% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,034 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Indo-Iranian[3]
  • Commons category: Iranian languages[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Iranian languages[5]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7]
  • Topic has template: Template:Iranian languages[8]
  • Studied by: Iranian studies[9]
  • Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133095487[10]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[11]

Why It Matters

Iranian has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Iranian is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Cyrus Shahabi Iranian studies Jafar Panahi Mojtaba Eisapour

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i73264
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06986270-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0374877-iranske-jazyky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0374877-iranske-jazyky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Iranian languages distribution.png
    Has part(s) → ['Q391015', 'Q129850', 'Q33028', 'Q29572']
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  4. 23w ago · Ерідан · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Indo-Iranian
    Has part(s) → ['Q391015', 'Q129850', 'Q33028', 'Q29572']
    Yso id → 15896
    Topic has template → Template:Iranian languages
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): Eastern Iranian"
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