By late 19^th century, historians and linguists were referring to ancient Akkadian spoken in what is now northern Iraq as a Turanian language… nowadays, the concept of Turanian has been omitted form Mainstream information and Akkadian is listed as a Semitic language… although this posting is not about the classification of ancient Akkadian language, let’s look at the concept of Turanian…

According to J. M. Evans in a 2012 book on ancient Sumerians, “the term Turanian is derived from the Iranian epic traditions, in which the peoples of Turan are the enemies of Iran” living beyond Iran… so that by 20^th century, any language that awaited classification was listed under Turanian…

…of course, those of Iranian heritage KNOW that Turanians are Iranians and are very familiar with the legends of Iran versus Turan…these “Iranian versus Turanian” legends and epics are still very much part of Iranian cultural fabric…it’s not until late Antiquity-early Medieval era when Turanian-Iranians mixed with Eurasian Turks (a Mongolian people) causing some Turanian-Iranians to become Turkish speakers that the classification of Turanians also extended to now mixed peoples of Turanian/Iranian-Turkish heritage… so originally and in ancient times, Turanian did not mean Turkish tribes—rather Eastern Iranians (as opposed to the famous Persians, who are Western Iranians)…

O. M. Davidson discussed this in a 1985 publication in honor of Iranologist Prof. Mary Boyce by stating that Turanians in Iranian ancient records “are thoroughly Iranian, but they are distinct in both form and content from the institutions represented as orthodox Iranian”…that is, compared to Iranians (Western Iranic), the Turanians (Eastern Iranic) are seen as barbarous, predatory, nomadic, and cultic…in Iranian memories, their natural enemies—the Turks and the Chinese—were at times allies with Turanians…

…we can see this conflict between Western Iranians (“orthodox” Iranians) and Eastern Iranians (“heterodox/liberal” Iranians) in the displacement of Parthians (Eastern Iranic) by Sasanians (Western Iranic) in that the Sasanian Persians viewed Parthians (descendants of Scytho-Medes) as not Iranian enough to rule an Iranian empire!!!  Let’s not forget that earlier in Iranian history, we have Cyrus the Great (king of Western Iranic Persians) having reportedly been killed in battle by Tomyris (queen of Eastern Iranic Scytho-Massagetaens)…

Now ancient Assyrians called the neighboring Scythians (Eastern Iranic), “Ashkuza” (Ashkenaz)… Eastern Iranian Scythians called Western Iranian Persians, “Khazar”… therefore, the names Ashkenazi/Khazari referred to various Iranian groups living around the Caspian Sea / Baltic Sea… by the Middle Ages, the Ashkenazi/Khazari will mix with Salvic Indo-Europeans, Turkic Mongolians, and Jewish Semites to form the Khazaria Kingdom/Empire in the Middle Ages whose ruling class chose to convert to Judaism probably for political reasons in surviving against two militaristic movements of Islam & Christianity…

…it should be noted that in the typical Mainstream Narrative habit of omitting important information, when it also comes to Ashkenazi/Kharazi history, the word “Iranian” is usually left out so readers only see the words “Turkish” and “Jewish”…

[pic "The Babylon Code" (2014) by R. N. Rhoades: Ashkenazi meant Iranian Scythians… the Gimirrai-Cimmerians were also an Iranian people…for educational purposes only]