   __notoc__ :this article deals with the languages found in iran. the iranian languages article deals with the linguistic branch of the indo-european languages family  250px|thumb|iran main languages different publications have reported different statistics for the languages of iran. there have been some limited censuses taken in iran in 2001, 1991, 1986 and 1949-1954.iran. rtish. sitÄd-i artish. dÄyirah-i jughrÄfiyÄÊ¾Ä«. title: farhang-i jughrÄfiyÄÊ¾Ä«-i irÄn : ÄbÄdÄ«hÄ. imprint: [tihrÄn] : dÄyirah-i jughrafiyÄÊ¾Ä«-i sitÄd-i artish, 1328-1332 [1949-54] description: 10 v. : illus., maps (part fold. col.) notes: vols. 1-9 compiled under the general editorship of hossein Ê»alÄ« razmÄrÄ. see for summary: (ehsan hooshmand, âfaslnaameyeh goftegooâ, âa closer look at religious and ethnic statistics in modern iranâ, 2005, tehran) the article can be found here: http://www.magiran.com/magtoc.asp?mgid=1929&number=43&appendix=0 the following are the languages with the greatest number of speakers (data from the cia world factbook):cia world factbook * persian, gilaki and mazandarani and luri 75% * azerbaijani and other turkic dialects 11% * kurdish 10% * balochi 2% * other languages comprise 2%, and include turkmen, georgian, armenian, circassian, assyrian, hebrew, and brahui, etc. * total population 75,149,669 (2012 census){{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,
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