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According to the historian [[Muhammad Dandamayev]] and the linguist [[János Harmatta]], the Cimmerians spoke a dialect belonging to the [[Scythian languages|Scythian]] group of [[Iranian languages|Iranic languages]], and were able to communicate with [[Scythians]] proper without needing interpreters.<ref>{{harvnb|Dandamayev|2015}}: "It seems that Cimmerians and Scythians (Sakai) were related, spoke among themselves different Iranian dialects, and could understand each other without interpreters."</ref>{{sfn|Harmatta|1996|p=181}}{{sfn|Bouzek|2001|p=43}}
The Iranologist Ľubomír Novák considers Cimmerian to be a relative of Scythian which exhibited similar features as Scythian, such as the evolution of the sound {{IPAslink|d}} into {{IPAslink|ð}}.{{sfn|Novák|2013|p=10}}
According to Igor Diakonoff, the Cimmerians spoke a Scythian language{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=93-94}} belonging to the eastern branch{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=94}} of the Iranic language.{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=51}} The Scythologist [[Askold Ivantchik]] also considers the Cimmerians to have been linguistically very close to the Scythians.{{sfn|Ivantchik|2001|p=339}}
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