Iranic peoples (Iranian peoples)![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Iranian_languages_distribution.png/220px-Iranian_languages_distribution.png) |
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Iran: 79% of population[1]
Afghanistan: 71% of population[2]
Tajikistan: 79.9% of population[3]
South Ossetia: 89.9% of population |
Pakistan | 18.99% of population[4] |
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Uzbekistan | 1,544,700[5] |
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Syria | 7%–10% of population[6][7] |
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Iraq | 15–20% of population[8][9] |
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Russia | 760.536[10] |
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Azerbaijan | 143,300[11] |
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Iranic languages (a branch of the Indo-European languages) |
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Predominately: Islam (Sunni, Shia and Alevi) Minorities: Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy, Nestorianism, Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Baháʼí Faith, Yazidism, Yarsanism, Zoroastrianism, Assianism (Historically also: Manichaeism and Buddhism) |
The Iranic peoples also sometimes called Iranian peoples, are a ethno-linguistic group who speak Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European languages.
Modern Iranian peoples include: The Azerbaijanis, Balochs, Kurds, Lurs, Mazanderanis, Ossetians, Tats, Tajiks, Talyshs, Zazas, Pashtuns, Pamiris, Persians, Yaghnobis, Wakhis, and Gilaks.
Historical Iranic peoples include the; Alans, Scythians,[12] Dahae, Sakas,[13] Medes, Bactrians, Sogdians,[14] Sarmatians, Parthians, Khwarezmians,[15] Cimmerians,[16] and Daylamites.
- ↑ "Iran". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (United States). "Persian 61%, Azeri 16%, Kurd 10%, Lur 6%, Baloch 2%, Arab 2%, Turkmen and Turkic tribes 2%, other 1%"
- ↑ "Afghanistan". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (United States). "Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%"
- ↑ "Tajikistan". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (United States). "Tajik 79.9%, Uzbek 15.3%, Russian 1.1%, Kyrgyz 1.1%, other 2.6% (2000 census)"
- ↑ "Pakistan". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (United States). "Punjabi 44.68%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.42%, Sindhi 14.1%, Sariaki 8.38%, Muhajirs 7.57%, Balochi 3.57%, other 6.28% "
- ↑ "Uzbekistan - Tajiks". World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. "The Tajiks are an Iranian people who speak a variety of Persian, an Indo-Aryan language. Most of them are Sunni Muslims and according to 2017 government estimates, ethnic Tajiks total 1,544,700 people (4.8 per cent of the population)."
- ↑ "Turkey's Syria offensive explained in four maps". BBC News. "Kurds make up between 7% and 10% of Syria's population. For decades, they were suppressed and denied basic rights by President Bashar al-Assad and, before him, his father Hafez."
- ↑ "Who are the Kurds?". BBC News. "Kurds make up between 7% and 10% of Syria's population. Before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011 most lived in the cities of Damascus and Aleppo, and in three, non-contiguous areas around Kobane, Afrin, and the north-eastern city of Qamishli."
- ↑ "Who are the Kurds?". BBC News. "Kurds make up an estimated 15% to 20% of Iraq's population. They have historically enjoyed more national rights than Kurds living in neighbouring states, but also faced brutal repression."
- ↑ "Iraq". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (United States). "Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian, or other 5%"
- ↑ Iranian ethnic groups mentioned in the 2010 Russian census:
Ossetian: 528,515
(Digor: 223)
(Iron: 48)
Tajik: 200,303
Kurd: 23,232
(Kurdmandji: 42)
Persian: 3,696
Talysh: 2,529
Tat: 1,585
Pamiri: 363
- ↑ Iranian ethnic groups mentioned in the 2009 Azerbaijani census:
Talysh: 112,000
Tat: 25,200
Kurd: 6,100
- ↑ Ivantchik 2018 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFIvantchik2018 (help): "SCYTHIANS, a nomadic people of Iranian origin (...)"
Harmatta 1996, p. 181 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFHarmatta1996 (help): "[B]oth Cimmerians and Scythians were Iranian peoples."
Sulimirski 1985, pp. 149–153 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSulimirski1985 (help): "During the first half of the first millennium B.C., c. 3,000 to 2,500 years ago, the southern part of Eastern Europe was occupied mainly by peoples of Iranian stock [...] [T]he population of ancient Scythia was far from being homogeneous, nor were the Scyths themselves a homogeneous people. The country called after them was ruled by their principal tribe, the "Royal Scyths" (Her. iv. 20), who were of Iranian stock and called themselves "Skolotoi" (...)"
West 2002, pp. 437–440 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFWest2002 (help): "[T]rue Scyths seems to be those whom [Herodotus] calls Royal Scyths, that is, the group who claimed hegemony [...] apparently warrior-pastoralists. It is generally agreed, from what we know of their names, that these were people of Iranian stock (...)"
Rolle 1989, p. 56 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRolle1989 (help): "The physical characteristics of the Scythians correspond to their cultural affiliation: their origins place them within the group of Iranian peoples."
Rostovtzeff 1922, p. 13 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRostovtzeff1922 (help): "The Scythian kingdom [...] was succeeded in the Russian steppes by an ascendancy of various Sarmatian tribes — Iranians, like the Scythians themselves."
Minns 2011, p. 36 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFMinns2011 (help): "The general view is that both agricultural and nomad Scythians were Iranian."
Diakonoff 1985, p. 48 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDiakonoff1985 (help): "The majority of the “Eastern” Iranian tribes – Scythians, Alani, Massagetae, Sakas, Chorasmians, Sogdians – remained on the territory of south-eastern Europe and in Central Asia."
- ↑ Diakonoff 1985, p. 48 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDiakonoff1985 (help): "The majority of the “Eastern” Iranian tribes – Scythians, Alani, Massagetae, Sakas, Chorasmians, Sogdians – remained on the territory of south-eastern Europe and in Central Asia."
- ↑ Diakonoff 1985, p. 48 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDiakonoff1985 (help): "The majority of the “Eastern” Iranian tribes – Scythians, Alani, Massagetae, Sakas, Chorasmians, Sogdians – remained on the territory of south-eastern Europe and in Central Asia."
- ↑ Diakonoff 1985, p. 48 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDiakonoff1985 (help): "The majority of the “Eastern” Iranian tribes – Scythians, Alani, Massagetae, Sakas, Chorasmians, Sogdians – remained on the territory of south-eastern Europe and in Central Asia."
- ↑ Tokhtas’ev 1991, p. 563–567 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFTokhtas’ev1991 (help): "CIMMERIANS, a nomadic people, most likely of Iranian origin (...)"
Harmatta 1996a, p. 181 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFHarmatta1996a (help): "[B]oth Cimmerians and Scythians were Iranian peoples."