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Language code: oss

Technical information about ISO 639 language code oss

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The table below provides technical details for the Ossetian, Ossetic language, designated by the oss code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

oss

Name

Official

Ossetian, Ossetic

Native

Ирон æвзаг

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
IronDigor
Related languages
YaghnobiPashtoPersian (Farsi)Tajik
Key facts
Only living descendant of the ancient Scytho-Sarmatian branch of Eastern Iranian languagesKeeps about seven noun cases and three grammatical gendersWritten with a modified Cyrillic alphabet since 1937, previously used Georgian and Latin scriptsThe special letter ӕ marks a front rounded vowel rare in Iranian tonguesVocabulary shows heavy borrowing from neighbouring Caucasian languages and from Russian.
Sample phrase

Салам, уӕд нæу?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Ossetian, Ossetic language, identified by the code oss, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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