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Name:
Osetin
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Ossete; Ossetian; Ossetic
Spoken in:
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Germany, Turkmenistan
Number of speakers:
100,000 in Georgia (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 641,450
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
550000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
526453
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
oss
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Old Ossetic; Sarmatian; Ossetic; Ossetisch; Alanic; Scytho-Sarmatian (oos)
Child Dialects:
Tual (oss-tua)
Iron; Northeastern Ossetic; Eastern Ossetic; Ir; Tagaur; Alagir; Kurtat (oss-iro)
Digor; Digoro-Tual; Northwestern Ossetic; Western Ossetic (oss-dig)
Allagir (oss-all)
Tagaur (oss-tag)
Kurtat (oss-kur)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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