Proto-Iranian or Proto-Iranic is the reconstructed proto-language of the Iranian languages branch of Indo-European language family and thus the ancestor of the Iranian languages such as Persian, Pashto, Sogdian, Zazaki, Ossetian, Mazandarani, Kurdish, Talysh and others.
Proto-Iranian refers to the common ancestor language of the Iranian subfamily in the Indo-European linguistic family, encompassing languages like Persian, Pashto, Sogdian, Zazaki, Ossetian, Mazandarani, Kurdish, Talysh, and so forth.