The Persian language belongs to which linguistic group? Group of answer choices Altaic None--it is an isolate Indo-European Finno-Ugric
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Option A is not correct as Altaic languages mark languages belonging to three language families -Mangolian, Turkic, and Manchu-Tungus.
Option B is not correct as the Persian language is a pluricentric language widely spoken in Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan. It is not an isolate.
Option C is CORRECT as the Persian language forms a part of the Iranian languages' Western Iranian group, making it a branch of the Indo-European languages. The Indo-European languages consist of languages that include Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian.
Option D is not correct as the Persian language does not form part of the Finno-Ugric group. The Finno-Ugric constitute a subfamily of the Uralic group of languages.
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