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2 days ago · 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. The spread of Akkadian stretched from Syria to Elam, and even the Elamite language was temporarily written in Mesopotamian cuneiform.
1 day ago · 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. [57]
- left-to-right
- (Proto-writing)Cuneiform
- Cuneiform
1 day ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
2 days ago · By the Late Bronze Age, Ugarit had developed a thriving dual-scribal system. Primarily, the West Semitic Akkadian language was used, serving as the lingua franca throughout the region for diplomacy, business, and administrative purposes. Alongside this, there was significant scribal activity in the local Northwest Semitic Ugaritic language.
5 days ago · Overview. Fees. Look up fees. This subject is an introduction to Akkadian grammar and the cuneiform writing system. It covers grammatical concepts and paradigms, sentence formation and translation and reading simple texts. Background information on the ancient Mesopotamian context in which Akkadian was spoken is woven into the subject matter.
2 days ago · (2) In the particular field of cuneiform studies, all our knowledge of Sumerian is based on Sumero-Akkadian vocabularies, bilingual texts, and borrowings from Sume- rian into Akkadian; and the only way to establish the Sumerian phonological system is to find out the phonetic picture as revealed by the transcription of Sumerian glosses in Akkadian cuneiform.
2 days ago · They were written in Akkadian, the lingua franca of the time. Most of the Letters recovered detailed correspondence between Northern Kings and the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Amarna Letters provide critical insight into the diplomatic protocol of the Great Powers during this time.
