History of the Iranian Languages Ancient Iranian Languages https://youtu.be/tN5B-yUPZJE?is=faLmIlEeTRtqSWoi The Iranian languages (I.e. Aryan) or Iranic languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples (i.e. Aryan Peoples), mainly in the Iranian Plateau (i.e. Aryan Plateau). The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Ancient Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE – 900 CE) and New Iranian (since 900 CE). The two directly attested Ancient Iranian languages are Old Persian (From the Achaemenid Dynasty of Iran at the time of it's 2nd Empire) and Avestan (the language of the Zoroastran Holy Book Avesta). From the Middle Iranian languages, the better understood and recorded ones are Middle Persian (From the Sassanian Dynasty of Iran at the time of it's 4th Empire), Parthian (From the Arsacid Dynasty of Iran at the time of its 3rd Empire), and Bactrian (From the Kushan and Hephthalite Empires). Make Iran Great Again 🦁🟩⬜🟥 Long Live The Shāh Pahlavi 🕊️💜💯 Imperial IRAN 👑☑️ Zoroastrian IRAN 𔓙🔥 Payandeh IRAN 🕊️💜💯 2,500+ years of Iranian Monarchy 7,000+ years of Iranian Civilization