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Germany, rather than France, would thus become the major European centre of Iranian dissent in the 1930s. [26] Notable Iranians who studied in France include Mehdi Bazargan, the first Iranian to pass the entrance examination to any of the grandes écoles; he went on to become prime minister of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. [27]
Languages of Metropolitan France, Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) [a] [18] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers in France Second-language (L2) speakers in France Total (L1+L2) speakers in France Alsatian: Indo-European: Germanic: 900,000 Algerian Arabic: Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 1,350,000 Moroccan Arabic: Afro-Asiatic: Semitic ...
The Indo-Iranian peoples, [10] [11] [12] also known as Ā́rya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European speaking peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages to parts of Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards.
The Indo-Aryan languages, or sometimes Indic languages, [a] are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of 2024, there are more than 1.5 billion speakers, primarily concentrated east of the Indus river in Bangladesh , North India , Eastern Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Maldives and Nepal . [ 4 ]
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages [4] [5] or collectively the Aryan languages [6]) constitute the largest branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] spoken by around 1.7 billion speakers worldwide, predominantly in South Asia , West Asia and parts of Central Asia .
Aryan languages may refer to: The Indo-Iranian languages. Indo-Aryan languages, one of the three main branches of Indo-Iranian; Iranian languages, another main branch of Indo-Iranian; Nuristani languages, the third main branch of Indo-Iranian; Badeshi language, an unclassified Indo-Iranian language; The Indo-European languages as a whole ...
The best-seller The Passing of the Great Race, published by American writer Madison Grant in 1916, warns of a danger of miscegenation with the immigrant "inferior races" – including speakers of Indo-European languages (such as Slavs, Italians, and Yiddish-speaking Jews) – allegedly faced by the "racially superior" Germanic Aryans (that is ...
The Germanic languages are also related to the Baltic and Slavic languages, which in turn share similarities with the Indo-Iranic languages. [184] The Greek, Armenian and Indo-Iranian languages are also related, which suggests "a chain of central Indo-European dialects stretching from the Balkans across the Black sea to the east Caspian". [ 184 ]