Alanic is an extinct Iranian language spoken by the Alans from about the 1st to the 13th centuries AD, a dialect directly descended from the earlier Scytho-Sarmatian languages, which would in turn give rise to the Ossetian language. Byzantine Greek authors recorded only a few fragments of this language. The Alans who moved westward in the Migration Period brought their language to Iberia and to the Maghreb in 409 AD, before being displaced by the invading Visigoths and by the Byzantine Empire.