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| Iron | |
|---|---|
| Ирон ӕвзаг (Iron ævzag) | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈironɐvˈz̠äk] |
| Native to | North Caucasus |
| Region | North Ossetia,South Ossetia |
Native speakers | (5/6 of Ossete speakers cited 1981)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | os |
| ISO 639-2 | oss |
| ISO 639-3 | oss |
| Glottolog | iron1242 |
Iron Ossetian (Ossetian:ирон ӕвзаг,romanized: iron ævzag,pronounced[ˈironɐvˈz̠äk]), also known asIron Ossetic orIron-Ossetic, is one of the two maindialects of theOssetic language along withDigor[2] spoken in theCaucasus. The majority ofOssetians speak Iron, notably in the East, South and Central parts ofNorth Ossetia–Alania, while in the West theDigor dialect is more prevalent. The Iron dialect has been the basis of the Ossetian written language since the abolition of the Digor standard in 1939.[2]
The Iron dialect is spoken by the majority of North Ossetians (most of flat Ossetia, as well as the Kurtatin, Tagaur and Alagir gorges).[3]
With insignificant lexical borrowings from Digor dialect, it is the basis of one of the variants of the literary Ossetian language. The North Ossetian radio and television broadcasts in it, and the daily republican newspaperRæstdzinad (in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania) is published.
In North Ossetia, as a result of migration from the mountains to the foothill plains, the vocal differences in the Iron dialect leveled out with the displacement of other dialects by the "socating" (by the pronunciation of ts - phoneme /s/) Kurtatin dialect.
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