OSSETIAN (ирон ӕвзаг) an Iranian language of the Caucasus

This video describes the history and grammar of the Ossetian or Ossetic language (оссетинский язык, иронау, ирон ӕвзаг), the sole modern descendant of the old Scythian branch of the Iranian (Indo-Aryan) language group within the Indo-European language family. The Ossetian language is spoken today in Southern Russia and Georgia in the North Ossetic Republic and in the South Ossetic Republic by over 600,000 people, descendants from the old Iranian ethnicities known as the Alans (Alanians, Alania) the Sarmatians and the Scythians. Ossetic is an SOV language with rich agglutinative case marking, no genders and postpositions. It is more distantly related to the Yaghnobi language of Tadjikistan (descended from Old Sogdian) and Pashto, a modern descendent of old Bactrian dialect (related to the old Avestan language)
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