Akkadian

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Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, historically used in Assyria and Babylonia and written in cuneiform script.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic language
extinct language
language of Mesopotamia
ancestorOf no modern spoken language
approximateExtinction 1st millennium BCE
earliestAttestation 3rd millennium BCE
hasCaseSystem nominative–accusative alignment
hasDialect Assyrian
Babylonians
surface form: Babylonian

Middle Assyrian
Middle Babylonian
Neo-Assyrian
Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Neo-Babylonian

Akkadian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Old Akkadian

Old Assyrian
Akkadian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Babylonian
hasGender feminine
masculine
hasNumber dual (partially preserved)
plural
singular
historicalPeriod Bronze Age
Iron Age
influenced Aramaic
surface form: Aramaic language

Elamite
surface form: Elamite language

Hittite (Nesite)
surface form: Hittite language

Hurrian
surface form: Hurrian language
influencedBy Sumerian language
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageCodeISO_639_2 akk
languageCodeISO_639_3 akk
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
morphologicalType fusional language
notableText Code of Hammurabi
Enuma Elish
Epic of Gilgamesh
surface form: Epic of Gilgamesh (Akkadian version)
partOf cuneiform culture of Mesopotamia
phonologicalType consonant–vowel (CV) syllable structure dominant
region Mesopotamia
surface form: Iraq (ancient Near East)

Mesopotamia
replacedBy Aramaic
surface form: Aramaic language
scriptDirection left-to-right
standardTransliterationSystem Latin-based scholarly transliteration
studiedInDiscipline Assyriology
subclassOf East Semitic language
usedAs lingua franca of the ancient Near East
usedFor administrative documents
legal texts
literary texts
religious texts
royal inscriptions
scientific texts
usedIn Assyria
Mesopotamia
surface form: Babylonia

Mesopotamia
surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
writingSystem Mesopotamian cuneiform
cuneiform script
writingSystemType logo-syllabic script

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Semitic languages hasLanguage Akkadian
Nebuchadnezzar II language Akkadian
Nisan originOfName Akkadian
Adar nameOrigin Akkadian
Babylon hasLanguage Akkadian
Akkadian hasDialect Akkadian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Old Akkadian
Akkadian hasDialect Akkadian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Babylonian
Assyria officialLanguage Akkadian
Nineveh languageUsed Akkadian
Akkad hasDemonym Akkadian
Nippur languageEvidence Akkadian
Marduk language Akkadian
Ashur languageOfInscriptions Akkadian
Ur languageUsed Akkadian
Haran languageAttested Akkadian
Babylonian chronicles writtenInLanguage Akkadian
subject surface form: Babylonian Chronicles
this entity surface form: Akkadian language
Neriglissar language Akkadian
Sippar languageUsed Akkadian
Sippar culture Akkadian
Labashi-Marduk language Akkadian
Nabopolassar languageSpoken Akkadian
Nabonidus language Akkadian
Amorites associatedLanguage Akkadian
this entity surface form: Akkadian language
Akkadian month Tashritu hasEtymology Akkadian
subject surface form: Tashritu
this entity surface form: Akkadian language
Elamite usedAlongside Akkadian
Xerxes I inscriptionLanguage Akkadian
Utnapishtim languageOfName Akkadian
Babylonians language Akkadian
Belšar-uṣur languageForm Akkadian
Hammurabi language Akkadian
Hammurabi legalCodeLanguage Akkadian
Sennacherib language Akkadian
Baltasar hasOrigin Akkadian
this entity surface form: Akkadian language
Ugaritic language usedAlongside Akkadian
this entity surface form: Akkadian language
Hittite archives language Akkadian
this entity surface form: Akkadian language
Old Assyrian subclassOf Akkadian
Old Assyrian partOf Akkadian
this entity surface form: Akkadian language