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after the Arab conquests and during Islamic-Arab rule. The replacement of the Pahlavi script with the Arabic script in order to write the Persian language was done by the Tahirids in 9th century Khorasan. The Persian Dari language spread, leading to the extinction of Eastern Iranic languages
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remain among the largely Persian-speaking Tajik population of Central Asia. This appears to be due to the large numbers of Persian-speakers in Arab-Islamic armies that invaded Central Asia and later Muslim governments in the region such as the
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Eastern Iranian remains in large part a dialect continuum subject to common innovation. Traditional branches, such as "Northeastern", as well as Eastern Iranian itself, are better considered
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Most living Eastern Iranian languages are spoken in a contiguous area: southern and eastern Afghanistan and the adjacent parts of western Pakistan; the
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and is hence classified as Eastern Iranian despite its location). These are remnants of a vast ethno-linguistic continuum that stretched over most of
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also generally occurs in the word-initial position. This phenomenon is however not apparent in Avestan, and remains absent from Ormuri-Parachi.
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of the voiced stops *b, *d, *g. Between vowels, these have been lenited also in most Western Iranian languages, but in Eastern Iranian,
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have exerted a pervasive external influence on the closest neighbouring Eastern Iranian, as it is evident in the development in the
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The consonant clusters *ft and *xt have also been widely lenited, though again excluding Ormuri-Parachi, and possibly Yaghnobi.
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stage (hence the "Eastern" classification), while almost no records of the Scytho-Sarmatian continuum stretching from
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Avestan is sometimes classified as Eastern Iranian, but is not assigned to a branch in 21st-century classifications.
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has mostly been preserved. The labial member has been well-preserved too, but in most languages has shifted from a
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have survived. Some authors find that the Eastern Iranian people had an influence on Russian folk culture.
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Map of Northeastern Iranic populations in Central Asia during the Iron Age. Highlighted in green.
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consonants can be assumed to have been the first stage: *b > *β, *d > *ð, *g > *ɣ. The
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is preserved in some Pamir languages, it has in e.g. Pashto and Munji lenited further to
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has a different etymological origin, but generally Ormuri is preserved unchanged, e.g.
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The initial syllable was in this word lost entirely in Yaghnobi due to a stress shift.
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in Central Asia, some of the easternmost of these languages were recorded in their
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is often classified as early Eastern Iranian. As opposed to the Middle-era
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The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic
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Middle Persian/Dari spread around the Oxus River region, Afghanistan, and
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Common to most Eastern Iranian languages is a particularly widespread
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in the course of the later 2nd millennium BC not long after
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The Eastern Iranian area has been affected by widespread
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The position of the Pamir languages within East Iranian
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in the 1st millennium BC — an area otherwise known as
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Index

Eastern Iranian
Central Asia
South Asia
Caucasus
Linguistic classification
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Glottolog
east2704

Iranian languages
Iranian plateau
Iranian languages
Middle Iranian era
Avestan language
Western Iranian dialects
Pashto
Oxus River
Afghanistan
Indus River
Pakistan
Ossetic
Ossetia
Georgia
Russia
Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region
Tajikistan
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
China

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