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- Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language.
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Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language. Linguistic features
The East Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages. The East Semitic group is attested by three distinct languages, Akkadian, Eblaite and possibly Kishite, all of which have been long extinct. They were influenced by the non-Semitic Sumerian language and adopted cuneiform writing.
Canaano-Akkadian is a hybrid language compound of three layers: typical Old Babylonian constructions, genuine Northwest Semitic elements and so-called “local modifications”, i.e. expressions that are neither Babylonian nor Canaanite, but reflect Canaano-Akkadian mixed forms.
- Alexander Andrason, Juan-Pablo Vita
- 2014
Feb 28, 2020 · Akkadian as a written language predominated in Elam throughout the first half of the second millennium BCE, and that, conversely, Elamite gained the upper hand in the second half of that millennium, a time when Akkadian dominated as a lingua franca in the rest of the Ancient Near East.
- Juan Pablo Vita
- 2020
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 ...
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.
