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==Classification== Persian is a member of the [[Western Iranian languages|Western Iranian group]] of the [[Iranian languages]], which make up a branch of the [[Indo-European languages]] in their [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian subdivision]]. The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]] and [[Balochi language|Balochi]] are the most widely spoken.<ref name="windfuhr1987">{{cite book |last=Windfuhr |first=Gernot |url=https://archive.org/details/worldsmajorlangu0000unse/page/523 |title=The World's Major Languages |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-19-506511-4 |editor-last=Comrie |editor-first=Berard |location=Oxford |pages=[https://archive.org/details/worldsmajorlangu0000unse/page/523 523β546] |url-access=registration}}</ref>
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