Iranian literature

This article is about the literatures of languages in the Iranian language family. For the literature of the country of Iran, see Literature in Iran.

Iranian literature, or Iranic literature,[1] refers to the literary traditions of the Iranian languages, developed predominantly in Iran and other regions in the Middle East and the Caucasus, eastern Asia Minor, and parts of western Central Asia and northwestern South Asia.[2][3][4] These include works attested from as early as the 6th century BC. Modern Iranian literatures include Persian literature, Ossetian literature, Kurdish literature, Pashto literature, and Balochi literature, among others.[4]

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