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- Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language.
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Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language. Linguistic features
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Analogous to the Romance languages, the Canaanite languages operate on a spectrum of mutual intelligibility with one another, with significant overlap occurring in syntax, morphology, phonetics, and semantics. This family of languages also has the distinction of being the first historically attested group of languages to use an alphabet, derived fr...
Some distinctive typologicalfeatures of Canaanite in relation to the still spoken Aramaic are: 1. The prefix h- is the definite article (Aramaic has a postfixed -a), which seems to be an innovation of Canaanite. 2. The first person pronoun is ʼnk (אנכ anok(i), which is similar to Akkadian, Ancient Egyptian and Berber, versus Aramaic ʾnʾ/ʾny. 3. The...
Modern Hebrew, revived in the modern era from an extinct dialect of the ancient Israelites preserved in literature, poetry, liturgy; also known as Classical Hebrew, the oldest form of the language attested in writing. The original pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew is accessible only through reconstruction. It may also include Samaritan Hebrew, a var...
The primary modern reference book for the many extra-biblical Canaanite inscriptions, together with Aramaic inscriptions, is the German-language book Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, from which inscriptions are often referenced as KAI n (for a number n).
Canaano-Akkadian is a hybrid language compound of three layers: typical Old Babylonian constructions, genuine Northwest Semitic elements and so-called “local modifications”, i.e. expressions that are neither Babylonian nor Canaanite, but reflect Canaano-Akkadian mixed forms.
- Alexander Andrason, Juan-Pablo Vita
- 2014
This is a third, revised and updated version of the first part of a paper written for the occasion of the Amarna Centennial in Chicago (1987), titled "Some Methodological Requisites for the Study of the Amarna Jargon: Notes on the Essence of That Language" and available at <http://tau.ac.il/~izreel/publications/amarna-1987.pdf> and of a second ...
- Shlomo Izre'el
some interesting linguistic insights on the accumulated knowledge of Canaano-Akkadian (e.g., Rainey 1976), but more significantly, they have taught us lessons about the sociolinguistic setting of Canaano-Akkadian.
Feb 28, 2020 · Summary. The golden age of Akkadian as a lingua franca and the language of diplomacy in the Ancient Near East lasted throughout the second half of the second millennium BCE, especially during the so-called “Amarna period” (fourteenth century BCE) and until ca. the twelfth century BCE.
