(extinct) Iranian languages Proto-Iranian Old-Iranian (extinct) Eastern Iranian languages Old East Iranian (extinct) Northeastern Iranian languages Old Northeast Iranian Scytho-Sarmatian Scythian (extinct) Sarmatian (extinct) Alanic (extinct) Ossetian (Iron and Digor are divergent enough to be considered two separate although closely related languages) Iron Ossetian (Ирон – Iron or Ирон ӕвзаг – Iron ævzag) Ir Tagaur Alagir Kurtat Digor Ossetian (дигорон – Digoron) Digor Proper Tual Jassic (extinct) (Ossetic variant, more closely related to Digor, of a nomadic tribe, the Jassic people, settled in Hungary at the 13th century, in Jaszsag) (not to be confused with the language of the Iazyges, a related but separate language) Scytho-Khotanese (Saka) (extinct) Tumshuqese (extinct) (was spoken in the Tumxuk Kingdom) Kanchaki (extinct) (was spoken in the Kashgar Kingdom / Shule Kingdom) Khotanese ( Khotanai / Hvatanai / Gaustanai / Gostanai / Kustanai / Yūttinai) (extinct) (was spoken in the Kingdom of Khotan) Southeastern Iranian languages Old Southeast Iranian Khwarazmian / Chorasmian (extinct) (was spoken in Khwarazm – Xwârazm or Xârazm, Xvairizem, Huwarazmish, from Kh(w)ar "Low" and Zam "Land") (closely related to Sogdian) Old Sogdian Sogdian (was spoken in Sogdiana and was the Silk Road's lingua franca in Central Asia) (extinct) (closely related to Khwarazmian) North Sogdian South Sogdian Osrushana Sogdian (was spoken in Osrushana) Yaghnobi language (йағнобӣ зивок – Yaɣnobī́ zivók) (Neo-Sogdian, New Sogdian, Modern Sogdian) (spoken in the upper valley of the Yaghnob River in the Zarafshan area of Tajikistan by the Yaghnobi people) Western Yaghnobi Eastern Yaghnobi Avestan / Zend (Classical and sacred language of ancient Iran, language of Zoroastrian religion and of their sacred book – the Avesta) (extinct) (archaic Iranian language that was originally spoken in ancient Margiana, Aria, Bactria and Arachosia, roughly corresponding with a large part of today's Afghanistan, especially the northwest and north) Old Avestan (extinct) Younger Avestan (extinct) Margian (was spoken in Margiana, roughly corresponding with most of today's Turkmenistan) (extinct) Aryan of Aria (was spoken in Aria, roughly corresponding with today's Herat Province) (extinct) Bactrian (Αριαο – Aryao = Aryā; αο = ao = ā) (extinct) (was spoken in Bactria – βαχλο – Bakhlo) Munji-Yidgha (could descend from Bactrian or was part of an Eastern Iranian dialect chain intermediate between Bactrian and other Iranian languages such as Old Pashto) (classified as Pamir languages because of geographical position not genealogical) Munji (مونجى – Munji) Northern Munji (Mamalghan) Southern Munji (Munjan) Yidgha (یدغہ – Yidgha) Sarghulami (extinct)