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    Akkadian (/əˈkeɪdiən/; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑(𒌝), romanized: Akkadû(m)) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad...
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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...
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  • Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language Akkadian literature, literature in this language Akkadian cuneiform, early writing system Akkadian mythology...
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    area that is modern-day Iraq. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as the primary spoken language in the area c. 2000 BC (the exact...
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    its founder Sargon of Akkad. Under Sargon and his successors, the Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam and...
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    Cuneiform (redirect from Akkadian Cuneiform)
    addition to Sumerian. Akkadian texts are attested from the 24th century BC onward and make up the bulk of the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself...
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    language and Akkadian language (including ancient Assyrian and Babylonian). Sumerian was displaced by Akkadian by 1700 BCE, and Akkadian was gradually...
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  • phase of the Assyrian Empire, which slowly displaced the East Semitic Akkadian language beginning around the 10th century BC. They have been further heavily...
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    Babylonia (redirect from Sumero-Akkadian)
    Babylon. Like Assyria, the Babylonian state retained the written Akkadian language (the language of its native populace) for official use, despite its Northwest...
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  • Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia)...
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    names—interspersed in texts that are otherwise in the unrelated Akkadian language, a Semitic language—found in texts of the Assyrian colony of Kültepe in eastern...
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    Book of Genesis. Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date in West Asia, with East Semitic Akkadian (also known as Assyrian...
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  • Egyptian (literary language of Ancient Egypt from c. the 20th century BC to the 4th century AD) Old Babylonian (the Akkadian language from c. 20th to 16th...
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  • Assyrian language may refer to: Ancient Assyrian language, a dialect of the ancient East Semitic Akkadian language In modern Assyrian terminology, related...
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    sounds ("-ng"). Nunation may also refer to the -n  ending of duals in Akkadian (until it was dropped in the Old Babylonian period). Arabic diacritics...
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    Sumer (category Articles containing Akkadian-language text)
    people". The Akkadians also called the Sumerians "black-headed people", or ṣalmat-qaqqadi, in the Semitic Akkadian language. The Akkadians, the East Semitic-speaking...
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    Assyria (category Articles containing Akkadian-language text)
    of the Akkadian language, it is a modern version of the ancient Mesopotamian Aramaic. The language retains some influence of ancient Akkadian, particularly...
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    Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (category Semitic languages)
    founded the state of Ebla, whose Eblaite language was closely related to the Akkadian of Mesopotamia. The Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Eblaites were...
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  • Babylonian (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) Babylonian language, a dialect of the Akkadian language Babylonia (disambiguation) Babylonian astronomy Babylonian...
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    and an Akkadian morphology led to controversies surrounding the nature of this language. For P. Fronzaroli, the opposition suggested an Akkadian dialect...
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  • on the patchy distribution of extant cuneiform texts, the Semitic Akkadian language of the native Babylonians was mostly used for economic transactions...
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  • classed by some as its westernmost dialect, and from non-Akkadian proper names recorded by Akkadian scribes during periods of Amorite rule in Babylonia (the...
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  • are in Akkadian, dating to around the 24th to 23rd centuries BC (see Sargon of Akkad) and the Eblaite language, but earlier evidence of Akkadian comes...
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    Abzu (category Articles containing Akkadian-language text)
    baptismal font in Christian churches. The Sumerian god Enki (Ea in the Akkadian language) was believed to have keen eyes and appeared out of the abzu since...
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    so-called plene spelling (Mandaic alphabet) and the amount of Iranian and Akkadian language influence on its lexicon, especially in the area of religious and...
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  • extinct Amorite and Ugaritic languages). The East Semitic languages, meanwhile, consist of the extinct Eblaite and Akkadian languages. Ethiopic and South Arabian...
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    Nibiru (Babylonian astronomy) (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Nibiru (also transliterated Neberu, Nebiru) is a term in the Akkadian language, translating to "crossing" or "point of transition", especially of rivers...
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    or /ˌɑːdɪˈɡeɪ/; also known as West Circassian) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians. It is spoken mainly in...
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    Aramaic alphabet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    their Akkadian language and its cuneiform script with Aramaic and its script, and among Jews, but not Samaritans, who adopted the Aramaic language as their...
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    Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages. The East Semitic group is attested by three distinct languages, Akkadian, Eblaite...
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