Proto-Iranian

Proto-Iranian

Proto-Iranian, is the reconstructed proto-language of the Iranian languages branch of Indo-European language family. Its speakers, the hypothetical Proto-Iranians, are assumed to have lived in the early 2nd millennium BC, and are usually connected with the Proto-Indo-Iranians and early Andronovo archaeological horizon.

Proto-Iranian was a Satem language, likely removed less than two millennia from the late Proto-Indo-European language, and in turn removed less than a millennium from the Avestan language. It is the ancestor of the Iranian languages such as Persian, Sogdian, Zazaki, Mazandarani, Kurdish and others.

Proto-Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Phonological Correspondences


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