Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum, 𒀝𒂵𒌈 ak.kADû) (also Accadian, Assyro-Babylonian1) is an abolished Semitic accent (part of the greater Afroasiatic accent family) that was announced in age-old Mesopotamia. The age-old accurate Semitic language, it acclimated the cuneiform autograph arrangement acquired ultimately from age-old Sumerian, an different accent isolate. The name of the accent is acquired from the burghal of Akkad, a above centermost of Mesopotamian civilization.
During the third millennium BC, a abutting cultural symbiosis developed amid the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included boundless bilingualism.2 The access of Sumerian on Akkadian (and carnality versa) is axiomatic in all areas, from lexical borrowing on a massive scale, to syntactic, morphological, and phonological convergence.2 This has prompted advisers to accredit to Sumerian and Akkadian in the third millennium as a sprachbund.2
Akkadian was aboriginal accurate in Sumerian texts in able names from about 2800 BC.3 From the additional bisected of the third millennium BC, texts absolutely accounting in Akkadian activate to appear. Hundreds of bags of texts and argument bits accept been biconcave up to date; accoutrement a all-inclusive textual attitude of fabulous narrative, acknowledged texts, accurate works, accord and abounding added examples. By the additional millennium BC, two alternative forms of the accent were in use in Assyria and Babylonia (known as Assyrian and Babylonian respectively).
Akkadian had been for centuries the lingua franca in the Age-old Near East. However, it began to abatement about the 8th aeon BC, actuality marginalized by Aramaic during the Neo Assyrian Empire. By the Hellenistic period, the accent was abundantly bedfast to advisers and priests alive in temples. The aftermost Akkadian cuneiform certificate dates to the 1st aeon AD.4 A cardinal of Akkadian accommodation words survive in the Mesopotamian Neo Aramaic dialects announced in and about avant-garde Iraq by the Assyrian Christians of the region, and the giving of Akkadian claimed names is still accepted amidst these people.
During the third millennium BC, a abutting cultural symbiosis developed amid the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included boundless bilingualism.2 The access of Sumerian on Akkadian (and carnality versa) is axiomatic in all areas, from lexical borrowing on a massive scale, to syntactic, morphological, and phonological convergence.2 This has prompted advisers to accredit to Sumerian and Akkadian in the third millennium as a sprachbund.2
Akkadian was aboriginal accurate in Sumerian texts in able names from about 2800 BC.3 From the additional bisected of the third millennium BC, texts absolutely accounting in Akkadian activate to appear. Hundreds of bags of texts and argument bits accept been biconcave up to date; accoutrement a all-inclusive textual attitude of fabulous narrative, acknowledged texts, accurate works, accord and abounding added examples. By the additional millennium BC, two alternative forms of the accent were in use in Assyria and Babylonia (known as Assyrian and Babylonian respectively).
Akkadian had been for centuries the lingua franca in the Age-old Near East. However, it began to abatement about the 8th aeon BC, actuality marginalized by Aramaic during the Neo Assyrian Empire. By the Hellenistic period, the accent was abundantly bedfast to advisers and priests alive in temples. The aftermost Akkadian cuneiform certificate dates to the 1st aeon AD.4 A cardinal of Akkadian accommodation words survive in the Mesopotamian Neo Aramaic dialects announced in and about avant-garde Iraq by the Assyrian Christians of the region, and the giving of Akkadian claimed names is still accepted amidst these people.
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