Ossetian language

Ossetian
ирон ӕвзаг (iron ævzag)
дигорон ӕвзаг (digoron ævzag)
Latin-script Ossetian text from a book published in 1935; part of an alphabetic list of proverbs.
Pronunciation[iˈron ɐvˈzäɡ]
[digoˈron ɐvˈzäɡ]
Native toOssetia
RegionCaucasus
Ethnicity700,000 Ossetians
Native speakers
490,000 (2020 census)[1]
Standard forms
  • Ossetian
  • Standard Ossetian
Dialects
Official status
Official language in
Russia

Georgia

Partially recognised state

Language codes
ISO 639-1os
ISO 639-2oss
ISO 639-3oss
Glottologosse1243
Linguasphere58-ABB-a
Ossetian is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]
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Alana speaking Ossetian Iron and Ossetian Digor
Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region. Ossetian-speaking regions are shaded gold.

Ossetian (/ɒˈsɛtiən/ o-SET-ee-ən, /ɒˈsʃən/ o-SEE-shən, /ˈsʃən/ oh-SEE-shən),[3][4] commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete[5] (ирон ӕвзаг, romanized: iron ӕvzag pronounced [iˈron ɐvˈzäɡ] southern; [iˈron ɐvˈʒäɡ] northern), is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Russian-Georgian border in the Greater Caucasus region. It is the native language of the Ossetian people, and a relative and possibly a descendant of the extinct Scythian, Sarmatian, and Alanic languages.[6]

The northern half of the Ossetian region is part of Russia and is known as North Ossetia–Alania, while the southern half is part of the de facto country of South Ossetia (recognized by the United Nations as Russian-occupied territory that is de jure part of Georgia). Ossetian-speakers number about 614,350, with 451,000 recorded in Russia per the 2010 Russian census.[7]

Despite Ossetian being the official languages of both North and South Ossetia, since 2009 UNESCO has listed Ossetian as "vulnerable". In the 2010 Russian census only 36% of North Ossetians claimed to be fluent in Ossetian, with the number decreasing year by year.[8]

  1. ^ Ossetian at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "World Atlas of Languages: Ossetian". www.unesco.org. Archived from the original on August 2, 2018. Retrieved Mar 3, 2021.
  3. ^ AHD:Ossetian
  4. ^ OED:Ossetian.
  5. ^ Dalby 1998.
  6. ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2010). Van Sanskriet tot Spijkerschrift Breinbrekers uit alle talen. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-9089641793.
  7. ^ "Ossetic". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
  8. ^ Fuller, Liz (28 May 2015). "One Nation, Two Polities, Two Endangered Ossetian Languages?". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

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