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[Spanky]

Wow - this is great. The civil war rifle question had been bugging me for years. Now I know the answer. He is another question (or questions), that I have Googled but not have found an answer to. From Morocco to Kabul there are only really four major languages in the Middle East.

1) Arabic is spoken from Morocco in the West to Syria in the Northeast down to Yemen in the south east. Although the accents get really thick, the phoenetic writing is the same through the Arab world. Someone from Yemen can barely understand someone from Morocco because the accent but everyone can pretty much understand the Egyptian accent (some say dialect). That is because of Egypts central location. They share liteature.

2) Kurdish is spoken in Southeastern turkey, Northwestern Iran, Eastern Syria and Northern Iraq.

3) Persian or Farsi is spoken in most of Persia except where Azerbaijani (Turkish), Kurdish, and Arabic (Khosistan next to Iraq) are spoken. Fifty percent of Afghanistan speaks farsi (where it is called Dari) and Tadjikistan. So farsi is spoken from a continuous strip starting in Tehran running through afghanistan and then into Tadjikistan. I have found out that the accents get thick but someone in norther Tadjikistan can understand someone from Tehran. They also share the same liteature.

4) Turkish is spoken in Turkey, Northeastern Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgistan, Uzbekistan and northwestern China (Sinkiang province where Kashgar is located).

Given the above here are my questions.

1) Each "Turkish" country has its own ethnicity - Turkmens, Kazaks, Azeris and Uighers which implies to me that they have their own language. However, they all are "Turkish". So can someone from Uzbekistan talk to someone from Kazakhstan (they are both neighbors and Turkish). Can someone from Istanbul talk to a Uigher in Kashgar which is about three thousand miles away? And do they share the same liteature like all the Arabs and the farsi speaking people do? I do know that Turkey dropped the arabic script in the 20s. Did that cut them off from the rest of the Turkish world as far as liteature. What do the Uighurs use as script?

2) There are Pan-Turks (people that want to unite all turks), Pan-Arabs (people that want to unit all arabs) and nationalist Kurds that want to unite all Kurds. Even in Eastern Afghanistan there are the Pashtuns and there are pan-pashtuns that want to unite the pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. How come there is no Pan-persians. I have not ever heard of any group or movement that wants to unite the farsi speaking people of the middle east. Even though they have the same liteature, the same language and the are the people occupy is continuous.

3) Can all Kurds talk to eachother. Do they have a common script?