Western Iranian languages

Western Iranian
Western Iranian
Geographic; distribution	Southwest Asia, Central Asia, Caucasus, and western South Asia
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian; ; ;
Subdivisions	Northwestern Iranian; Southwestern Iranian;
Glottolog	nort3177 (Northwestern Iranian); sout3157 (Southwestern Iranian)

The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.

Western Iranian
Geographic distribution	Southwest Asia, Central Asia, Caucasus, and western South Asia
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian
Subdivisions	Northwestern Iranian Southwestern Iranian
Glottolog	`nort3177` (Northwestern Iranian) `sout3157` (Southwestern Iranian)