Indo-Iranian languages are the eastern-most group of the living Indo-European languages. They are well represented among the oldest records of Indo-European languages. These originate around present-day Afghanistan and early on split as some people went west and some went east.

Indo-Aryan languages:

• Sanskrit
• Assamese language
• Bengali language
• Gujarati language
• Hindi language
• Maithili language
• Marathi language
• Nepali language
• Oriya language
• Pali
• Punjabi language
• Romany language - the language of Gypsies
• Sindhi language
• Singhalese language
• Urdu

Iranian languages:

• Persian language
• Avestan (extinct)
• Pahlavi - "Middle Persian"
• Pashto language
• Dari language
• Tajik language
• Ossetian language
• Kurdish language
• Balochi language
• Talysh language
• Tat language

See also

• Language families and languages