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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).
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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
Download Free PDF. View PDF. Semitic languages Comparative Semitic Linguistics Akkadian Language Ancient Hebrew Canaanite Languages Amarna Letters Amarna Studies Canaano-Akkadian. 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 ...
- Shlomo Izre'el
The classification of the language of the Canaanite Amarna Letters is still a matter of contention. The primary debate is whether or not the mixed Canaano-Akkadian forms are a reflection of a local dialect(s) of Akkadian, or a written scribal code––one that was quite distanced from the actual language underlying such messages.
Published 2014. Linguistics. The present paper elaborates on the linguistic status of Canaano-Akkadian. The authors demonstrate that the graphic variations of the glosses that are employed more than once by the same scribe reveal the attitude of the Canaanite scribes towards their mothers tongue: scribes considered the Canaanite language as a ...
