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3 days ago · Akkadian ( / əˈkeɪdiən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑, romanized: Akkadû) [7] [8] 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 ...
- Assyrian, Babylonian, Canaano-Akkadian, Old Akkadian
- Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform
4 days ago · Akkadian texts are attested from the 24th century BC onward and make up the bulk of the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself adapted to write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian, and Urartian.
- left-to-right
- (Proto-writing)Cuneiform
- Cuneiform
5 days ago · Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC. Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary, and scientific language in Babylonia and Assyria until the 1st century AD.
- c. 5500 – c. 1800 BC
4 days ago · (Akkadian was to the 14 th century B.C. what French would be to the 18 th century A.D.) Ships routinely crisscrossed the wine-dark sea, bearing cargoes of ivory, perfume, glass, and most crucially ...
1 day ago · These elegant Akkadian palaces doubled as imposing fortresses, boasting spacious halls, bathing chambers, kitchens, and private bedrooms. In matters of governance and culture, the Akkadians made lasting contributions. They standardized weights, measures, and script, establishing Akkadian as the official language.
2 days ago · Akkadian (akkadû, ak.kADû) is an extinct east Semitic language (part of the greater Afroasiatic language family) that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system, which was originally used to write ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate.
It is important to bear in mind that Akkadian had likely (mostly) died out as a spoken language by the time of these texts, so whatever they tell us about the pronunciation of Akkadian is rather limited. Westenholz' article in ZA 97 (2007) lists many of the features of the Greek transliterations.
