Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Ossetia, the Ossets, or their language or culture.
- noun The Iranian language of the Ossets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to the Ossetes, people dwelling in the Caucasus Mountains.
- noun The language of the Ossetes. It belongs to the Indo-European or Aryan family, and is especially akin to Iranian or Persian.
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- adjective
Ossetian ; of or pertaining to Ossetia, its people, or their language. - proper noun
Ossetian , the Ossetian language.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other notable related Iranian languages include Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, Gilaki, spoken in the Middle East, and Ossetic, which is spoken in the Caucasus.
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For their parts, speakers of Baluchi live in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; Ossetic is chiefly spoken in the Russian and Georgian Caucasus.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For their parts, speakers of Baluchi live in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; Ossetic is chiefly spoken in the Russian and Georgian Caucasus.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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She rarely says her opinion about the languages, but often challenges my knowledge by asking "Whas is the Finnish/Ossetic/English word for that?"
On a child's view of English DC 2009
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In the world picture of my 3 y. o. there are five languages: Russian, Esperanto, English, Finnish and Ossetic.
On a child's view of English DC 2009
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The Ossetians Ossetic: ирæттæ, irættæ are an Iranic ethnic group indigenous to Ossetia, a region that spans the ...
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They speak Ossetic, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch.
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The Ossetians Ossetic: ирæттæ, irættæ are an Iranic ethnic group indigenous to Ossetia, a region that spans the Caucasus Mountains.
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