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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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Iranian

Summary

Iranian is a language family[1]. Iranian ranks in the top 2% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,513 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Iranian's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Iranian is a type of Indo-Iranian[4].
  • Iranian's Commons category is recorded as Iranian languages[5].
  • Iranian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Iranian languages[6].
  • Iranian's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • Iranian's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • Iranian's topic has template is recorded as Template:Iranian languages[9].
  • Iranian's studied by is recorded as Iranian studies[10].
  • Iranian's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133095487[11].
  • Iranian's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12].

Why It Matters

Iranian ranks in the top 2% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,513 views/month).[2] Iranian has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Iranian is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Cyrus Shahabi Iranian studies Jafar Panahi Mojtaba Eisapour

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 8d 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 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 26d 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 */ [[Property:P527]]: [[Q391015]]"
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