Ossetic or Ossetian is an The Iranian languages are a part of the Indo European language family. The Iranian language group is part of the larger Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages. Indo-Iranian languages originated around modern Afghanistan, and split into the Iranian, Indo-Aryan... Iranian As with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition. However, most would agree that language is a system of communication or reasoning using representation along with metaphor and some manner of logical grammar, all of which presuppose a historical and at least temporarily transcendent standard or truth... language spoken on the slopes of the The Caucasus is a region in West Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. The highest peak is Elbrus (5642m). Ancient countries of Caucasus: Armenia, Iberia, Colchis and Albania Modern Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan The independent nations that comprise... Caucasus mountains on the borders of The Russian Federation ( Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: Росси́я, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches... Russia and Georgia ( Georgian: საქართველო Sakartvelo), known from 1991 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the southern Caucasus. A former republic of the Soviet Union, it shares borders with Russia in... Georgia.

The area in Russia is known as The Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (Russian: Респу́блика Се́верная Осе́тия-Ала́ния; Ossetic: Цæгат Ирыс... North Ossetia-Alania (capital: Map of North Ossetia, Russia Vladikavkaz (Russian: Владикавка́з) is the capital of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia. It is situated in the south-east of the republic at the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, situated on the... Vladikavkaz), while the area in Georgia is called The Republic of South Ossetia (in Russian Respublika Yuzhnaya Osetiya, Республика Южная Осетия; in Ossetian Respublikae Xussar Iryston, Республикæ Хусса... South Ossetia (capital: Tskhinvali (also spelled Cchinvali) (ge.: ცხინვალი), is the capital of the Republic of South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia. From 1934 to 1961, the city was named Staliniri, after Joseph Stalin. Ossetians call the city Tskhinval, choosing to leave off the i... Tskhinvali). Ossetian speakers number about 500,000, 60 percent of whom live in Alania, and 15 percent in South Ossetia.

Ossetian, together with Tati can refer to: An alternative romanization of the Japanese word tachi. A northwestern Iranian language, spoken by the Tats (see Tat language) The French film director and actor Jacques Tati This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... Tati-Persian and ... Talyshi is one of the main The Iranian languages are a part of the Indo European language family. The Iranian language group is part of the larger Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages. Indo-Iranian languages originated around modern Afghanistan, and split into the Iranian, Indo-Aryan... Iranian languages with a sizeable community of speakers in the Caucasus. It is descended from the language of the The Alans or Alani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. Early Alans The first mentions of names that historians link with Alani appear almost at the same... Alans, a group within the nomadic Sarmatian horseman Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (the second form is mostly used by the earlier Greek writers, the other by the later Greeks and the Romans) were a people whom Herodotus (4.21-117) in the 5th century BC put on the eastern boundary of Scythia beyond the Tanais (Don... Sarmatians. It is believed to be the only surviving descendent of a Sarmatian language.

There are two important dialects: Iron and Digor -- the former being the more widely spoken. Written Ossetian may be immediately recognized by its use of the æ, a letter to be found in no other language using the The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages ( Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. * archaic letters Origins The plan of the... Cyrillic alphabet. A third dialect of Ossetic, Jassic, was formerly spoken in Hungary.

The literary form of the language has 35 phonemes -- 26 consonants, 7 vowels and 2 diphthongs.

Cyrillic Alphabet (since 1937): А/а, Ӕ/ӕ, Б/б, В/в, Г/г, Гъ/гъ, Д/д, Дж/дж, Дз/дз, Е/е, Ё/ё, Ж/ж, З/з, И/и, Й/й, К/к, Къ/къ, Л/л, М/м, Н/н, О/о, П/п, Пъ/пъ, Р/р, С/с, Т/т, Тъ/тъ, У/у, Ф/ф, Х/х, Хъ/хъ, Ц/ц, Цъ/цъ, Ч/ч, Чъ/чъ, Ш/ш, Щ/щ, Ъ/ъ, Ы/ы, Ь/ь, Э/э, Ю/ю, Я/я.

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Roman Alphabet (1923-1937): A/a, Æ/æ, B/b, C/c, Č/č, D/d, E/e, F/f, G/g, H/h, I/i, J/j, K/k, L/l, M/m, N/n, O/o, P/p, Q/q, R/r, S/s, Š/š, T/t, U/u, V/v, X/x, Y/y, Z/z, Ž/ž