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| | Modern Iranian (from Iranian languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains. |
 | | A language family that covers a broad geographical region and a vast historical period, the Semitic language group is part of an even larger language family known as Afro-Asiatic, or Hamito-Semitic. |
 | | English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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