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    postpositions transformed into suffixes, including reá "onto" (the phrase utu rea "onto the way" found in the 1055 text would later become útra). There...
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    status to any particular language. Frye reclassifies Imperial Aramaic as the lingua franca of the Achaemenid empire, suggesting that the use of Aramaic language...
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    Babylonian Empire, initiated language reforms to make Akkadian the pre-eminent lingua franca of antiquity; inscriptions have been found on stone, silver and clay...
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    they adopted Greek as their official language, while Aramaic remained the lingua franca in the empire. The native Parthian language, Middle Persian, and...
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    himself in temples across Sumer. Eventually the Guti were overthrown by Utu-hengal of Uruk, and the various city-states again vied for power. Power over...
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  • Primarily it used the East Semitic Akkadian language which acted as the lingua franca throughout the region for diplomacy, business, and administrative...
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    composition of the region and facilitating the rise of Aramaic as the regional lingua franca, a position the language retained until the 14th century. The Neo-Assyrian...
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    (2010:206–207) Cruz, Aline da (2011). Fonologia e Gramática do Nheengatú: A língua geral falada pelos povos Baré, Warekena e Baniwa [Phonology and Grammar...
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  • inflectional morphology. Review of Proto-Romance morphology by Robert Hall". Lingua. 66 (2–3): 225–60. doi:10.1016/S0024-3841(85)90336-5. Zampaulo, André (2019)...
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    normally lack a copula as well, e.g. 𒀀𒁀𒀭𒌓𒁶 a-ba dutu-gen7 "Who is like Utu?" As explained above, negative sentences also omit the copula in *nu-am3/nu-um...
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    "Religion has never been a cause of hostility between Americans and Moros. Datu Utu and his whole household knew Iwas a Christian, yet they took considerable...
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    Ur-ningin, reigned 6 years; Kuda reigned 6 years; Puzur-ili reigned 5 years, Ur-Utu reigned 6 years. Uruk was smitten with weapons and its kingship carried off...
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  • u-/uw-/w- ufunguo "key" Things with an extended outline shape 14 u- u- u-/uw-/w- utu "humanity" Abstract nouns 15 ku- ku- ku-/kw- kula "eating, consuming" Infinitives...
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    suffering defeat at Toulouse in 439, barely winning at the Battle of the Utus in 447, likely losing or stalemating at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains...
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    concords as class 3. Class 13 (ti-) had tu- in Rebmann's time (e.g. tumpeni utu 'these small knives'). This prefix still survives in words like tuló 'sleep'...
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    Halmaheran language is Ternate (50,000 native speakers), which is a regional lingua franca and which, along with Tidore, were the languages of the rival medieval...
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    Gelb, I. (1981), "Ebla and the Kish Civilization", in Cagni, L. (ed.), La Lingua di Ebla, Naples, pp. 9–72, OCLC 8567807{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location...
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    In Braarvig, Jens; Geller, Markham J. (eds.). Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science...
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    languages, reflecting the country's high linguistic diversity. The day-to-day lingua franca in the capital city is Bislama. In addition, English and French are...
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    snuza in te hamaiθi civeis caθnis fan/10iri marza in te hamaiθi ital sacri utus ecunza iti alχu scuvse riθnai tu/11 l tei ci zusle acun siricima nunθeri...
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    Goldwasser, Orly. 1992. "The Narmer Palette and the 'Triumph of Metaphor'." Lingua Aegyptia 2: 67–85. Muhlestein, Kerry. 2011. Violence In the Service of Order:...
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    Yarumá as Members of the Pekodian Branch (Cariban). Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas – RBLI. Macapá, v. 3, n. 1, p. 85-93, 2020. Gildea, Spike. 2012...
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    [area of?] Hamai, be consecrated for Ita (? or "for this (festival)"?); that utu be given with ecun and with scuvsa by the Ita priest in the ritual; that...
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    In: Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral; Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues (ed.), Línguas e culturas Tupi, p. 357–374. Campinas: Curt Nimuendaju; Brasília: LALI...
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    Syllable stress may also vary regionally—for instance, the word for “dove,” ütü, may be pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, or with equal strong...
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  • could refer to another city. Just as during the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the lingua franca of the Achaemenid Empire was Aramaic. By this time, the Aramaic script...
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  • Tikader & Gajbe, 1977 — India Nodocion tikaderi (Gajbe, 1993) — India Nodocion utus (Chamberlin, 1936) — USA, Mexico Nodocion voluntarius (Chamberlin, 1919)...
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  • Kumokio Mese, Nabak Komba, Selepet–Timbe Nomu Ono Sialum Kâte is the local lingua franca. Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for...
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