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Indo Iranian Languages
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Iranian Languages
The Iranian languages are characterized by an extensive history of contact with non-Indo-European languages, notably various Altaic languages and Caucasian languages tongues. Linguists have noted that the sound $/ \theta /$ (as in English thin), though not native to PIE, achieved high frequency in many Western Iranian languages due to an intensive, non-glottalic ad…