Ossetian

Also known as Ossetic, Ossetic language, Ossetian language, Ossete

Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus

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Ossetian is a language spoken in Ossetia, a region in the Caucasus mountains, and it belongs to the Iranian language family. It's historically significant as one of the few Iranian languages still actively spoken today and represents a unique cultural and linguistic heritage in the Caucasus region.

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short name: осетинский
Wikimedia language code: os
native label: Iron ævzag
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 599250
Commons category: Ossetian language
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/OSS
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female form of label: la langue ossète

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Alana speaking Ossetian Iron and Ossetian Digor Ossetian (/ɒˈsɛtiən/ o-SET-ee-ən, /ɒˈsiːʃən/ o-SEE-shən, /oʊˈsiːʃən/ oh-SEE-shən), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete, is an Eastern Iranic language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Greater Caucasus, on the Russia-Georgia border. It is the native language of the Ossetian people, and a relative and possibly a descendant of the extinct Scythian, Sarmatian, and Alanic languages.

The northern half of the Ossetian region is part of Russia and is known as North Ossetia–Alania, while the southern half is part of the de facto country of South Ossetia (recognized by the United Nations as Russian-occupied territory that is de jure part of Georgia). Ossetian-speakers number about 614,350, with 451,000 recorded in Russia per the 2010 Russian census.