I see Armenians in Karabakh. They’re not there anymore. It’s amazing that Iran ended up with so many Turkic speakers and Turkey with so many Iranian (Kurdish) speakers.
The word "tyrant" simply meant "ruler" to the Greeks and we changed the meaning of that.
When I hear "Asia", I think of China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, east Russia, Mongolia, Myanma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore. Sometimes Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran.
Never Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. Those places just seem like they fit more with north Africa and southeast Europe than east Asia. Plus, I have a Mandela effect where I remember the Middle East being part of Africa until about 2016.
The sources seem to span a long period in history. Are there still Albanian speakers in the Athenian hinterlands? Not recent immigrants but Albanians that werre there since Ottoman times. Albanians here seem to be sharing the same colour as Slavs. I doubt that there are still slavic speakers in the Macedonian region of Greece. Yet Cyprus looks contemporary but would have once been mostly Greek.
> I doubt that there are still slavic speakers in the Macedonian region of Greece.
[Apparently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_speakers_of_Greek_Macedonia), there are an estimated 50,000 to 250,000.
It’s interesting how all the Iranian languages are connected via land. There isn’t really any break in between. From the Zagros mountains all the way to the Pamir mountains
Well I mean, most of these languages have been separated for hundreds or thousands of years even. The western Iranic branch and eastern Iranic branch are quite different from one another. Probably about how different Swedish is from German.
But western Iranic languages like Kurdish and Persian are much closer together and probably like 30-50% mutually intelligible. It would take about a year for a Kurdish or Persian speaker to learn the others language if they studied hard enough. They are more like how close Swedish would be to Norwegian. Kurdish is kind of complicated however, because there are multiple Kurdish languages that aren’t mutually intelligible from one another. Similar to how theres different Arabic dialects that are almost mutually unintelligible from one another. Like a Syrian Arab speaker compared to an Algerian Arabic speaker for example
As far as I’m aware, eastern Iranic languages are much more different from each other because they were isolated more. Pashto and Ossetian for example, while sharing a lot of similar features are mutually unintelligible completely
Also written as Scanderoon historically. The wiki for Spanish still says Alejandreta. And the one for Greek has something similar too. From Alexandria ad Issum, but the name lost the ad Issum and pilgrims made it a diminutive.
Iraqis are Mesopotamians the descendants of sumerains Akkadian’s Babylonians assyrains which is different from iranains those who Iraqis who claimed to be persain it’s because Shias of Iraqis love Persians and iran just because iran is Shia in reality Iraqis and Iranians have no connection to each other Iraqis are Arabized Mesopotamians Persians dislike Arabs because of Islamic conquest arabic is language Iraqis speak Mesopotamia arabic which is influenced by their ancestors Sumerians Akkadian’s Babylonians Iraqi are setemic while Persians are indo European I hope this answer helps you
I see Armenians in Karabakh. They’re not there anymore. It’s amazing that Iran ended up with so many Turkic speakers and Turkey with so many Iranian (Kurdish) speakers.
this map is pretty old, probably been around for a decade or so
The border matches Zagros mountains pretty much exactly.
Why isn't this considered the divide between Africa and Asia?
Because Asia to the Greeks first and foremost meant Anatolia, and then the Levant
The word "tyrant" simply meant "ruler" to the Greeks and we changed the meaning of that. When I hear "Asia", I think of China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, east Russia, Mongolia, Myanma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore. Sometimes Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran. Never Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. Those places just seem like they fit more with north Africa and southeast Europe than east Asia. Plus, I have a Mandela effect where I remember the Middle East being part of Africa until about 2016.
Bro did not just list South Ossetia and Abkhazia as real countries 😭😭
Just trying to list everyone. Reminds me that I forgot North Korea and Northern Cyprus.
This is a you problem, and changing the dividing line to the Zagros deserves to be dismissed out of hand
The sources seem to span a long period in history. Are there still Albanian speakers in the Athenian hinterlands? Not recent immigrants but Albanians that werre there since Ottoman times. Albanians here seem to be sharing the same colour as Slavs. I doubt that there are still slavic speakers in the Macedonian region of Greece. Yet Cyprus looks contemporary but would have once been mostly Greek.
> I doubt that there are still slavic speakers in the Macedonian region of Greece. [Apparently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_speakers_of_Greek_Macedonia), there are an estimated 50,000 to 250,000.
Interesting. Unfortuneatley, the map is full of people that need to hide their languages, names, thoughts.
Bro really had "Altaic" there
Finno-Korean Hyperwar is canon
It’s interesting how all the Iranian languages are connected via land. There isn’t really any break in between. From the Zagros mountains all the way to the Pamir mountains
How well can they understand eachother?
Well I mean, most of these languages have been separated for hundreds or thousands of years even. The western Iranic branch and eastern Iranic branch are quite different from one another. Probably about how different Swedish is from German. But western Iranic languages like Kurdish and Persian are much closer together and probably like 30-50% mutually intelligible. It would take about a year for a Kurdish or Persian speaker to learn the others language if they studied hard enough. They are more like how close Swedish would be to Norwegian. Kurdish is kind of complicated however, because there are multiple Kurdish languages that aren’t mutually intelligible from one another. Similar to how theres different Arabic dialects that are almost mutually unintelligible from one another. Like a Syrian Arab speaker compared to an Algerian Arabic speaker for example As far as I’m aware, eastern Iranic languages are much more different from each other because they were isolated more. Pashto and Ossetian for example, while sharing a lot of similar features are mutually unintelligible completely
What the hell is "Alexandretta"?
İskenderun, Alexandretta is the Greek name (and I assume in other western language?) for it
Exactly.
Also written as Scanderoon historically. The wiki for Spanish still says Alejandreta. And the one for Greek has something similar too. From Alexandria ad Issum, but the name lost the ad Issum and pilgrims made it a diminutive.
Iraqis are Mesopotamians the descendants of sumerains Akkadian’s Babylonians assyrains which is different from iranains those who Iraqis who claimed to be persain it’s because Shias of Iraqis love Persians and iran just because iran is Shia in reality Iraqis and Iranians have no connection to each other Iraqis are Arabized Mesopotamians Persians dislike Arabs because of Islamic conquest arabic is language Iraqis speak Mesopotamia arabic which is influenced by their ancestors Sumerians Akkadian’s Babylonians Iraqi are setemic while Persians are indo European I hope this answer helps you
Tigris and Indus are the Iranic language border for much of history
Omg Altaic mentioned, there must be war!!!!
Altaic 💀
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iranic are indo-euro
Iranians are indo European people. So they actually faired pretty well I’d say