Iron dialect

Not to be confused with Iron Language.

Iron
Native to	Russia, Georgia
Region	North Ossetia, South Ossetia
Native speakers	unknown (5/6 of Ossete speakers cited 1981)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern? Ossetian Iron
Dialects	Ir Tagaur Alagir Kurtat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	iron1242

Iron (Ossetic: Ирон, Iron or Ирон æвзаг, Iron ævzag) is one of the two main dialects of the Ossetic language, spoken in the Caucasus. The majority of the Ossetians speak Iron, notably in the East, South and Central parts of North Ossetia–Alania, while in the West the Digor 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. Iron (Ирон) is possibly rooted from the Russian way to spell Iran (Russian: Иран).

See also

• Ossetians
• North Ossetia–Alania
• Iron people