Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und der umliegenden Gebiete vor den islamischen Eroberungen.
Von TheBasedEmperor
Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und der umliegenden Gebiete vor den islamischen Eroberungen.
Von TheBasedEmperor
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Syriac wasn’t spoken in the Levant, the Aramaic was a mix of Western dialects.
Lots of places on this map are missing any language. The Hejaz absolutely was Arabic speaking.
Even Middle Persian area was much diverse before Sassanids.
„Middle Median“ is a fun name
Definitely not old Balochi since linguistic evidence (it’s a northwestern Iranian language like Kurdish) points its origins to somewhere between Caspian Sea and Zagros mountains from where it slowly diffused into Makran coast 12th century onwards.
Prior to the expansion of Balochi the region likely had Indo-Aryan languages like Jadgali and Lasi (still spoken today albeit in smaller numbers); Brahui (a Dravidian language) was probably more widespread too.
Persian wasn’t spoken in levant and egpyt at all.
I mean even in Eastern Arabia when arabs communicate with persians they communicate in Aramaic not Persian.
Even in mesopotamia despite holding the capital of the sassanian aramaic was much more spoken.
Edit:Before the arab conquest levant, egypt, part of mesopotamia and North arabia was under roman not persian
Arabic was either the second or third most spoken language in the Levant and Mesopotamia
The first in both was obviously Aramaic, the second in the Levant was probably Greek with Arabic as a very close third, while the second in Mesopotamia was likely Arabic as Persian was limited to the capital to the most part while the Lower Euphrates was already partially Arabized.
Khuzestan mostly spoke Aramaic too, with a minority speaking Khuzi (a descendant of Elamite).
Also Persian in the Levant ? The notion is pretty much laughable. You were way more likely to find Greek in Mesopotamia (Weh Antiok Khosrow, literally „better Antioch built by Khosraw“, was founded by Byzantine POWs) than to find Persian in the Levant.
You mean before the Arab conquest.
The world that could’ve been.
Where’s my Ethio-Semitic
Im curious why you chose to not put the tapuri (im guessing you mean tabari by that) under the capsian language group
Why is most of Arabia blank?
The Turkic languages should have extended to the north of the Black Sea, the Khazars were there,
Basically completely wrong on all accounts. I’ll throw in another inaccuracy nobody has mentioned yet: Hebrew was never a commonly spoken language in antiquity. Even when Jews were a majority in the region (centuries prior to Islam existing), it was not a commonly spoken language. Regular Jews did not speak or understand it for well over 1,000 years prior to the advent of Islam.