Салам!
say it: “sah-LAHM”
Ossetian
in its own words: ирон æвзаг
- Speakers
- 600 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Iranian
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Russian Federation
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Georgia (regional)
Fun fact
Ossetian is an Iranian language of the Caucasus, regarded as descended from the language of the Alans, and thus of the Sarmatians and Scythians.