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Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. '' native language '') is the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .
Akkadian Empire. Standard languages. East Semitic languages. Babylonia. Languages attested from the 3rd millennium BC. Languages extinct in the 8th century BC. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after languages.
Akkad or the Akkadian Empire ( Sumerian: Agade, Bible: Accad) is the oldest empire in history. [1] It was located in Mesopotamia. The Akkadian empire reached its peak during the rule of Sargon of Akkad in the 24th and 22nd centuries BCE, and it eventually collapsed in 2154 BCE. The ruins have not been found, but it is believed to be on the ...
Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia ( Assyria and Babylonia) during the period spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age (roughly the 23rd to 6th centuries BC). [1] [2]
Eblaite ( / ˈɛblə.aɪt, ˈiːblə -/, [2] also known as Eblan ISO 639-3 ), or Palaeosyrian, [3] [4] is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. [5] It was named after the ancient city of Ebla, in modern western Syria. [5] Variants of the language were also spoken in Mari and Nagar.
The archaic cuneiform script was adopted by the Akkadian Empire from the 23rd century BC (short chronology). The Akkadian language being East Semitic, its structure was completely different from Sumerian. The Akkadians found a practical solution in writing their language phonetically, using the corresponding Sumerian phonetic signs.
Hittite belongs to the family of Anatolian languages and is among the oldest written Indo-European languages. Hittite is the modern scholarly name for the language, based on the identification of the Hatti ( Ḫatti) kingdom with the Biblical Hittites ( Biblical Hebrew: * חתים Ḥittim ), although that name appears to have been applied ...
