Re: OT: an axe to grind

Philip Newton wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
>
>>"Vorderasien" includes Asia Minor, AFAIK -- in particular, the area
>>currently covered by (Anatolian) Turkey.
>
>
> See also http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorderasien , which gives a list
> of countries considered to lie in that region. (According to the last
> vandal to deface that page.)
A rather large list - it extends further eastward than I had thought it
would, which makes me wonder how accurate the last 'vandal' was  :)

It covers both what we Brits use to call the 'Near East' and 'Middle
East' fifty years back when I was a youngster. But the whole lot
nowadays is generally just called the 'Mid(dle) East' - American usage,
I guess (presumably I live in what is 'near east' to them    :)

Maybe 'Vorderasien' has come to denote the same area of 'Mid(dle) east'
in contemporary anglophone usage. But, in any case, it is clear it does
include modern Turkey (aka Asia Minor, Kleinasien) where, as I have
previously written, we know non-IE & non-semitic langs were spoken well
into historic times.

Thanks for the info.

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