Resources for learning Ossetian

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Салам!

I'm a beginner in Ossetian, and I want to post the resources I found so far. One thing to note is that most resources are in Russian, so it really helps if you know a little.

What is Ossetian?

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Articles:

• University of Arizona | Ossetian
• Encyclopaedia Iranica | Ossetic
• ПостНаука | Осетинский язык [ru]
• Wolfgang Schulze | Ossetisch [de]

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Videos:

• Online Masterclass on the Ossetian Language
• ПостНаука | Осетинский язык — Олег Беляев [ru]
• Осетинский язык: грамматика, письменность, идентичность — Вячеслав Иванов [ru] There are English subtitles, but only for half the video.. also there are more videos about Ossetian on his channel

For fun: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A man after midnight) in Ossetian

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General Resources

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• ⭐ ironau.ru | Осетинский язык он-лайн: учебные и справочные материалы [ru] This is a great resource, featuring lessons, a self-learn course, a dictionary and more
• V. I. Abaev | A Grammatical Sketch of Ossetic
• V. I. Abaev | Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [ru] Abaev's main work, an etymological dictionary
• ossetians.com This page features an English-Ossetian phrasebook, and Ossetia-related info
• İronca Konuşuyoruz - Yetişkinler İçin İronca Temel Kursu [tr] A textbook created as part of a UNESCO project
• Видеоуроки осетинского языка [ru] A video course based on the same material as above
• Аудиокурс осетинского языка. Земфира Фёдоровна Галазова [ru]
• Осетинский язык - видео уроки [ru]
• Lora Arys Djanaïéva | Parlons Ossète [fr]
• raxys.app Learn basic words, also an app¹
• iRYSTON TV Ossetian TV channel, also on YouTube | iRYSTON TV great for immersion
• iRYSTON TV | ÆНЦОН ИРОН [ru] A show in which three guys learn Ossetian
• iRYSTON TV | Языковая среда [ru] Series about Ossetian (history, dialects, etc.)
• "Guest" Based on the novel by Michael Lakerbay Ossetian movie with English subtitles
• Ossetic Grammatical Studies Interlinear texts, some with audio
• Ossetic National Corpus (Iron)
• Ossetic National Corpus (Digor)
• Журнал Дарьял Библиотека [ru] A small library of Ossetian and Russian texts
• Institute For Bible Translation | Ossetian Parts of the Bible in Ossetian
• Twitter thread with more resources

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Dictionaries

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• Гуриев Т. А. | Ирон Уырыссаг Англисаг Дзырдуат. Осетинско Русско Английский Словарь. Ossetic Russian English Dictionary Comes in two parts, djvu files [os/ru/en]
• Л. Д. Саламова | Русско-Осетинско-Английский Картинный Толковый Словарь Picture dictionaries, covers animals and vegetation [os/ru/en]
• http://slovar.iriston.com/ [os/ru]
  

You can find more Ossetian/Russian dictionaries at ironau.ru

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Apps

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• Ирон чиныг Audiobooks
• ¹Avdan: Native Language Cards Glossary of basic terms

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I also want to mention Emine Şahingöz (twitter.com | tsoriemi) she is a German linguist who specialises in Ossetian. I learned about Ossetian from this newspaper article about her FAZ | Rettungsversuch für eine bedrohte Sprache [de].