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Alana speaking Ossetian Iron and Ossetian Digor Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region. Ossetian-speaking regions are shaded gold. Ossetian (/ ɒ ˈ s ɛ t i ən / o-SET-ee-ən, / ɒ ˈ s iː ʃ ən / o-SEE-shən, / oʊ ˈ s iː ʃ ən / oh-SEE-shən), [3] [4] commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete, [5] is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia ...
The Ossetic language written in its traditional Khutsuri. The Ossetian language belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. [38] Ossetian is divided into two main dialect groups: Ironian [38] (os. – Ирон) in North and South Ossetia and Digorian [38] (os. – Дыгурон) in Western North Ossetia.
Ossetians speak Ossetian, an Eastern Iranian language, which has two major dialects: Digor and Iron. The written form of Ossetian is based on the Cyrillic alphabet, with additional characters to represent unique Ossetian sounds. Ossetian literature dates back to the 18th century, and prominent authors include Kosta Khetagurov and Nart Sagalayev ...
The Ossetian language is part of the Eastern Iranian branch of the family of Indo-European languages. [1] Most countries recognize the Ossetian-speaking area south of the main Caucasus ridge as lying within the borders of Georgia , but it has come under the control of the de facto government of the Russian-backed Republic of South Ossetia ...
Iron Ossetian (Ossetian: ирон ӕвзаг, romanized: iron ævzag 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 Ossetians, speaking the Ossetian language, form another group of around 700,000 speakers. Other Indo-European languages spoken in the Caucasus include Greek ( Pontic Greek ), Persian (including Tat Persian ), Kurdish , Talysh , Judeo-Tat , and the Slavic languages , such as Russian and Ukrainian , whose speakers number over a third of the ...
The Ossetian national ideology is rooted in the works of 19th century Ossetian scholar and poet Kosta Khetagurov, generally considered to be a founder of Ossetian literature. Khetagurov with his followers restandartized Ossetian script with a goal of uniting all groups speaking Ossetian language.
The Ossetian Wikipedia (Ossetian: Ирон Википеди) is the Ossetian-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.It was created on 28 February 2005. [2] [3] With approximately 20,000 articles, it is currently the 132nd-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles. [4]