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- One of the world’s earliest written languages, Akkadian is also the oldest recorded Semitic language, a language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and more. However, while Hebrew and Aramaic belong to the northwest branch of the Semitic language family, Akkadian belongs to its eastern branch.
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Akkadian (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑, romanized: Akkadû) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia and perhaps Dilmun) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and Babylonians from the ...
Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date in West Asia, with East Semitic Akkadian and Eblaite texts (written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform) appearing from c. 2500 BCE in Mesopotamia and the northeastern Levant respectively.
Akkadian is the Semitic language that dominated ancient Mesopotamia and much of Ancient West Asia (also known as the Ancient Near East) for nearly two millennia. It was the language of empires and peasants.
Akkadian is the oldest known Semitic language, and after Sumerian it is the second oldest language in the Ancient Near East. It belongs to the East Semitic branch together with Eblaite.
During the Akkadian period, the Akkadian language became the lingua franca of the Middle East, and was officially used for administration, although the Sumerian language remained as a spoken and literary language.
Akkadian is the designation for a group of closely related East Semitic dialects current in Mesopotamia from the early third millennium until the Christian era. Closely connected to it is Eblaite, the language found at Tell Maradikh (ancient Ebla) in northern Syria.
But what is Akkadian? This prism is written in Akkadian, more especifically in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, the official language of the Assyrian kings. Akkadian is due to his geographical and chronological distrbution one of most important languages in the Ancient Near East.
