Ossetic

(12.) Andreyev, Sergei, "Pashto Literature: The Classical Period," in Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik: Companion Volume II: History of Persian Literature A, Volume 18, ed.

The Iranian language Ossetic has also a relatively high structural richness of prefixation (8 comparables).

For example, in Ossetic the recessive and the directive are not fully grammaticalized and are perceived as postpositions rather than cases by traditional grammarians, although there are arguments for treating them as case markers (Belyaev 2010).

(35)) Georges Dumezil (36) suggested that derivatives of daeuua survived also in two Ossetic dialects in the Greater Caucasus region: Iron cevdiv and Digor ceveu (< *apa-daiuua) 'evil spirit'.

leaked by Georgian and Moldavian sources in the context of the Abkhazian-South Ossetic and Transdniestrian problems.

The topics include differential object makings in Bactrian, the counterfactual mood in Iranian, syntactic and semantic properties of particle-converbs in Iron Ossetic, finite control in Persian, and the bilingual speech of highly proficient Persian-French speakers.

Finally, Vittorio Tomelleri's paper on aspectology shows the striking parallels between the aspectual system of Ossetic, an Iranian language spoken on the Caucasus, and the better-known Slavic aspectual systems.

Iranian: Ossetic sygyt 'earth(-matter)', Sogdian sykth, Pashto sega and Kurdish sigit.

The Ossetian people are mostly Orthodox Christians; their language (Ossetic) belongs to the Indo-Iranian group.

Many Hungarian words from Alanian also have close modern forms in Ossetic, an Alanian descendant, e.g., H asszony 'lady' ~ Os aexsijnae; H egesz 'whole' Os cegas 'whole'; H gazdag 'rich' Os qaezdig, gaezdug 'rich'; H hid 'bridge' ~ Os xid 'bridge'; H mu, acc muvet 'work' ~ Os mi, mivae 'work'; H sajt 'cheese' ~ Os cyxt, cigd 'cheese'.