The eastern-most group of the living
Indo-European languages, and some of which we have the oldest records of. These originate around modern
Afghanistan and early on split as some people went west and some went east.
[Indo-Aryan languages]?:
[Iranian languages]?:
- Persian language
- [Pashto language]?
- [Tajik language]?
- [Ossetic language]?
- [Kurdish language]?
- [Balochi language]?
- ...