INDO-IRANIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indo-Iranian mean? 

• INDO-IRANIAN (noun)
  The noun INDO-IRANIAN has 1 sense:

1. the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups

  Familiarity information: INDO-IRANIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDO-IRANIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Indo-Iranian; Indo-Iranian language

Hypernyms ("Indo-Iranian" is a kind of...):

Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indo-Iranian"):

Indic; Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages)

Iranian; Iranian language (the modern Persian language spoken in Iran)