Ossetian
Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus
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Summary
Ossetian is a natural language[1]. Ossetian draws 4,316 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #102 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3], South Ossetia[4], Georgia[5], Turkey[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Eastern Iranian[8], Scythian[9]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[10], Ossetian Cyrillic alphabet[11]
- Commons category: Ossetian language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: os[13]
- Has part(s): Iron dialect[14], Digor Ossetian[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ossetian language[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 599,250[17]
- Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19]
- Native label: Ирон ӕвзаг[20], Iron ævzag[21]
- Short name: осетинский[22], осетинська[23], osetincə[24], ирон[25], осетинӣ[26]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[27]
- Indigenous to: Imereti[28], Kvemo Kartli[29], Mtskheta-Mtianeti[30], Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti[31], Shida Kartli[32], Kabardino-Balkaria[33], North Ossetia–Alania[34], Ossetians[35], South Ossetia[36]
- Female form of label: la langue ossète[37]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/OSS[38]
- Has grammatical case: equative case[39]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[40]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[41]
Why It Matters
Ossetian has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] Ossetian is known by 78 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]