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| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Western Asia and eastern half of Anatolia, Caucasus and Ossetia, Central Asia, western parts of South Asia, western Xinjiang (Historically also: Eastern Europe) | |
| Languages | |
| Iranian languages (a branch of the Indo-European languages) | |
| Religion | |
| Predominately: Islam (Sunni and Shia Islam) Minorities: Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy, Nestorianism, Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Baháʼí Faith, Yazidism, Yarsanism, Zoroastrianism, Assianism (Historically also: Manichaeism and Buddhism) |
The Iranian peoples[1] or Iranic peoples[2] are a diverse grouping of Indo-European[3] peoples who are identified by their use of the Iranian languages and other cultural similarities.
- ↑ Frye, R. N. "IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (1) A General Survey". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. XIII. pp. 321–326.
- ↑ The Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 15. 1954. p. 306.
- ↑ Young, Jr., T. Cuyler (1988). "The Early History of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid Empire to the Death of Cambyses". In Boardman, John; Hammond, N. G. L.; Lewis, D. M.; Ostwald, M. (eds.). Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525 to 479 B.C. The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 11 (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-521-22804-2. "The Iranians are one of the three major ethno-linguistic groups who define the modern Near East."