alphabet 8.3 Tajik alphabet 9 Examples 10 See also 11 Notes 12 Further reading 13 External links   Classification Persian belongs to the  Western group  of the  Iranian branch  of the  Indo-European  language family, which also includes  Kurdish ,  Mazandarani ,  Gilaki ,  Talyshi  and Baluchi . The language is in the  Southwestern  Iranian group, along with