Iranian Literature

Iranian literature is a term that has been used mainly in reference to Persian literature, but the term has other meanings as well:

• Literature in any other Iranian language (both extinct and present), such as the Avesta, or those written in:
  1. extinct: Old Persian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, Khwarezmian, Parthian, Saka, Old Azari
  2. modern: Kurdish, Gorani, Zazaki, Pashto, Balochi, and others.

• Literature in languages of modern Iran, including Persian, Kurdish, Azerbaijani Turkish, Balochi, Talyshi, Armenian, Arabic, and other languages spoken in Iran.