Median language

Median
Median
Region	Ancient Iran
Ethnicity	Medes
Era	500 BCE – 500 CE
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Median; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Razi;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xme
Linguist List	xme
Glottolog	None

Median (also Medean or Medic) was the language of the Medes. It is an ancient Iranian language and classified as belonging to the Northwestern Iranian subfamily, which includes many other languages such as Kurdish, Old Azeri, Talysh, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Zaza–Gorani and Baluchi.

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