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What (who) is Ossetic - definition

GROUP OF EASTERN IRANIAN LANGUAGES
Scythian language; Sarmatian language; Sarmatian languages; Scytho-Sarmatian languages; Alanic language; Scytho-Sarmatian; Old Ossetic language; Scytho-Sarmatian language; ISO 639:xln; ISO 639:xsc; Old Ossetic; Saka dialects; Scythian dialects; ISO 639:oos; West Saka language; Alanian language
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  • Eastern Iranian branch]] of the [[Indo-European languages]], listing the animals of the [[Chinese zodiac]] in the cycle of predictions for people born in that year; ink on paper, early 9th century

Ossete         
  • The first page of the first issue of the Ossetian newspaper ''[[Ræstdzinad]]''. Sjögren's Cyrillic alphabet. 1923
  • Ethnolinguistic groups in the Caucasus region. Ossetian-speaking regions are shaded gold.
  • Ossetic text written with Georgian script, from a book on Ossetian folklore published in 1940 in South Ossetia
EASTERN IRANIAN LANGUAGE OF OSSETIA, IN THE CAUCASUS
Ossetic; Ossetian alphabet; Osetin language; Иронау; Ossetian Language; Osetin; Ирон ӕвзаг; Ossete; ISO 639:oss; ISO 639:os; Ирон; Ossete language; Ossetic language; Ossetian phonology; Ossetic phonology; Ossetian dialects; Ossetian orthography; Ossetian Orthography; Ossetian writing system; Ossetian script; History of the Ossetian language
['?si:t]
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1. a native or inhabitant of Ossetia in the Caucasus.
2. the language of the Ossetes, belonging to the Iranian group.
Derivatives
Ossetian adjective &noun
Ossetic adjective &noun
Ossetian mythology         
MYTHOLOGY OF THE OSSETIAN PEOPLE
Shaubarak; Wasilla (god); Khusaw; Ossetian deities; Ossetic mythology; Barastir; Barastaer; Barastyr
Ossetian mythology is the collective term for the beliefs and practices of the Ossetian people of the Caucasus region, which contains several gods and supernatural beings. The religion itself is believed to be of Scythian origin, but contains many later elements from Christianity, like the Ossetian gods often being identified with Christian saints.
Scythian languages         
The Scythian languages ( or ) are a group of Eastern Iranian languages of the classical and late antique period (the Middle Iranian period), spoken in a vast region of Eurasia named Scythia. Except for modern Ossetian, which descends from the Alanian variety, these languages are all extinct.

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Scythian languages

The Scythian languages are a group of Eastern Iranian languages of the classical and late antique period (the Middle Iranian period), spoken in a vast region of Eurasia by the populations belonging to the Scythian cultures and their descendants. The dominant ethnic groups among the Scythian-speakers were nomadic pastoralists of Central Asia and the Pontic–Caspian steppe. Fragments of their speech known from inscriptions and words quoted in ancient authors as well as analysis of their names indicate that it was an Indo-European language, more specifically from the Iranian group of Indo-Iranian languages.

Most of the Scythian languages eventually became extinct, except for modern Ossetian (which descends from the Alanian dialect of Scytho-Sarmatian), Wakhi (which descends from the Khotanese and Tumshuqese forms of Scytho-Khotanese), and Yaghnobi (which descends from Sogdian). Alexander Lubotsky summarizes the known linguistic landscape as follows:

Unfortunately, we know next to nothing about the Scythian of that period [Old Iranian] – we have only a couple of personal and tribal names in Greek and Persian sources at our disposal – and cannot even determine with any degree of certainty whether it was a single language.