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Answer» What is Ossetic mean? Ossetian (English: , , ), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely Ossete (Ossetian: ирон ӕвзаг, romanized: iron ӕvzag), is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. It is one of the only few Iranian languages spoken in Europe, and is a relative and possibly a descendant of the extinct Scythian, Sarmatian, and Alanic languages. The Ossete area in Russia is known as North Ossetia–Alania, while the area south of the border is referred to as South Ossetia. Ossetian speakers number about 614,350, with 451,000 speakers in the Russian Federation recorded in the 2010 census. reference
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