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Canaano-Akkadian language. Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. [1] [2] It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language .
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
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Akkadian ( / əˈkeɪdiən /; 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 8th ...
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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).
(the Akkadian scribal culture). This Canaano-Akkadian scribal language, albeit essentially aimed at written communication, was also pronounced, at least in scribal training (Sanders 2009: 82, 88-89); e) Canaano-Akkadian was an Akkadographic writing of Canaanite. That is to say, “the hybrid of Canaanite and Akkadian in which Canaanite scribes
- Alexander Andrason, Juan-Pablo Vita
- 2014
Author(s): Mandell, Alice | Advisor(s): Schniedewind, William M | Abstract: The following study examines Canaano-Akkadian, the unique cuneiform system used in the southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age (1550-1150 B.C.E.), as a diplomatic scribal code used in contexts of mediated diplomacy with Egypt. The methodologies presented draw upon recent work on the sociolinguistics of writing and ...
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 ...
