Akkadian language

also called Babylonian language and has 8 more synonyms ↓

• Accadian
• Akkadian
• Akkadian Language and Literature
• Assyrian language
• Assyro-Babylonian Language
• Lišānum akkadītum
• Old Assyrian language
• Old Babylonian language
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1. Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum) or Assyrian-Babylonian was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia

   

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2. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate

   

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3. The name of the language is derived from the city of Akkad, a major centre of Mesopotamian civilization

   

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4. Attested since the later 3rd millennium BCE and in continued use throughout the 2nd millennium BCE, its use declined from the 8th century BC or so, and it was largely extinct during the Hellenistic period

   

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5. Akkadian is divided into several varieties based on geography and historical period

   

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6. As far as can be told from the cuneiform orthography of Akkadian, several Proto-Semitic phonemes are lost in Akkadian

   

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7. A detailed introduction to Akkadian

   

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8. Sample pages of Introductory Assyrian Grammar by Samuel A B Mercer

   

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9. Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar, by I. J. Gelb (1952)

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10. Akkadian-English-French Online Dictionary

    

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11. Glossary of Old Akkadian, by I. J. Gelb (1957)

    1957

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12. Old Babylonian Text Corpus (includes dictionary)

    

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13. Akkadian Language Samples

    

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    The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian

    

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15. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)

    

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16. Akkadian scribes wrote the language using cuneiform script, an earlier writing system devised by the Sumerians using wedge-shaped signs pressed in wet clay

    

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17. Akkadian is an inflected language, and as a Semitic language its grammatical features are highly similar to those found in Classical Arabic

    

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18. Akkadian sentence order was Subject+Object+Verb (SOV), which sets it apart from most other ancient Semitic languages such as Arabic and Biblical Hebrew, which typically have a Verb-subject-object (VSO) word order. (Modern South Semitic languages in E

    

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