Language code: os

Technical information about ISO 639 language code os

The table below provides technical details for the Ossetian language, designated by the os code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

os

Name

Official

Ossetian

Native

Ирон æвзаг

Family
Iranian
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Ossetian, also known as Ossetic, belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Iranian subgroup. It is primarily spoken in certain regions of Russia and Georgia. Ossetian is predominantly written using the Cyrillic script (Ossetian alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 500,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

345K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Ossetian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

os-GE Ossetian (Georgia)

os-RU Ossetian (Russia)

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