|135–185 million Communities majorly in Iran,Afghanistan and
also in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Oman, China
(Xinjiang), India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, Germany and United
States.| |Regions with significant populations| |Iran and
Iranian Plateau, Anatolia, South Asia, Central Asia, the
Caucasus and as immigrant communities in North America and
Western Europe.| |Related ethnic groups| Other Indo-Iranian
peoples The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are an Indo-
European ethno-linguistic group that comprise the speakers of
Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language
family, as such forming a branch of the Indo-European-speaking
peoples. Their historical areas of settlement were on the
Iranian plateau (mainly Iran) and certain neighbouring areas of
Central Asia (such as Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Pakistan West of the River Indus, northern Iraq and eastern
Turkey, and scattered part of the Caucasus Mount