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Iranic
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Iranian peoples.
Iranian vs. Iranic
Some scholars such as John Perry prefer the term Iranic as the name for the linguistic family of this category (many of which are spoken outside Iran), while Iranian for anything about the country Iran. He uses the same analogue as in differentiating German from Germanic or differentiating Turkish and Turkic. German scholar Martin Kümmel also argues for the same distinction of Iranian from Iranic.