Editing Languages of Iran (section)

== Languages of Iran ==
Different publications have reported different statistics for the '''languages of [[Iran]]'''. There have been some limited censuses taken in Iran in 2001, 1991, 1986 and 1949–1954.<ref>Iran. rtish. Sitād-i Artish. Dāyirah-i Jughrāfiyāʾī. Title: Farhang-i jughrāfiyāʾī-i Irān : ābādīhā. Imprint: [Tihrān] : Dāyirah-i Jughrafiyāʾī-i Sitād-i Artish, 1328–1332 [1949–54] Description: 10 v. : illus., maps (part fold. col.) Notes: Vols. 1–9 compiled under the general editorship of Hossein ʻAlī Razmārā. See for summary: (Ehsan Hooshmand, “Faslnaameyeh Goftegoo”, “A closer look at religious and ethnic statistics in modern Iran”, 2005, Tehran)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magiran.com/magtoc.asp?mgID=1929&Number=43&Appendix=0 |title=فصلنامه گفتگو، شماره 43 |website=Magiran.com |access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref>
The following are the languages with the greatest number of speakers (data from the [[CIA World Factbook]]):<ref name="CIA World Factbook">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iran/ |title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency |website=Cia.gov |access-date=2017-01-17 }}</ref>

Classification categories of the spoken languages:
* [[Indo-European language family|Indo-European]] ([[Iranian languages|Iranic]] mainly, smaller amounts of other branches represented mainly by [[Armenian language|Armenian]], amongst others)
* [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] (mainly [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], with smaller amounts of [[Turkmen language|Turkmen]], [[Qashqai language|Qashqai]])
* [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] (mainly [[Arabic language|Arabic]], but also [[Neo-Aramaic]], [[Hebrew]], and [[Mandean language|Mandean]])
* [[Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian]] (such as [[Georgian language|Georgian]])
*[[North Caucasian languages|North Caucasian]] ([[Circassian language|Circassian]])