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akkadian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | semitic |
| Has types | assyrian, assyrian akkadian |
Examples of akkadian
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Akkadian continued to flourish, splitting into Babylonian and Assyrian dialects.
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Akkadian was also a source of borrowing to other languages, above all Sumerian.
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Akkadian had been for centuries the lingua franca in the Ancient Near East.
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Akkadian has prepositions which consist mainly of only one word.
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Akkadian fell into disuse, but both it and Sumerian were still used in temples for some centuries.
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Akkadian Cylinder seal, with its modern seal impression.
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Akkadian lost both the glottal and pharyngeal fricatives, which are characteristic of the other Semitic languages.
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Akkadian verbs have thirteen separate root stems.
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Akkadian, came to be the dominant language during the Akkadian Empire and the Assyrian empires, but Sumerian was retained for administration, religious, literary, and scientific purposes.
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- An ancient branch of the Semitic languages
- Akkadian (liu253Cu00EDu2500u00FCnum akkadu2500u00BDtum, u00ADu00C6u00C7u00D8u00ADu00C6u00E9u00C1u00ADu00C6u00EEu00EA ak.ka.du251Cu2557) (also Accadian, Assyro-Babylonian) is an extinct Semitic language (part of the greater Afroasiatic language family) that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. ...
- (Akkadians) The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad (Sumerian: Agade , Arabic: u00CFu00FAu2518u00E2u00CFu00BB, Assyrian: u2584u00C9u2584u0192u2584u00F2, KUR A.GA.Du251Cu00EAKI "land of Akkad"; Biblical Hebrew u00CEu00C9u00CDu00C0u00CEu00F8u00CDu00C0u00CDu255Du00CEu00F4 (Genesis 10:10)) and its surrounding region (Akkadian URU Akkad KI) in Ancient Iraq, Mish, Frederick C. ...
- (Akkad) One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia (northern Babylonia); Also called Agade. A city in and the capital of this kingdom, one of the three cities of Nimrod's kingdom. Genesis 10:10
- (Akkad) About 2400 BC, King Sargon of Akkad became the first great Semitic ruler to break the power of Sumer. (Sumer was the first great civilization in the world.) Akkad, a site now south of Baghdad, was a town in the middle of Mesopotamia. Sargon built an empire that stretched as far as Syria. ...
- Akkadian is the earliest recorded Semitic language and became known from the decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions written in three languages on monuments at Persepolis and on the Rock of Behistun in the Zagros Mountains east of Babylon. ...
