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Centuries after the fall of the Akkadian Empire, Akkadian, in its Assyrian and Babylonian varieties, was the native language of the Mesopotamian empires (Old Assyrian Empire, Babylonia, Middle Assyrian Empire) throughout the later Bronze Age, and became the lingua franca of much of the Ancient Near East by the time of the Bronze Age ...
During the 7th and 6th centuries bce, Aramaic gradually began to replace Babylonian as the spoken and written language; after that Babylonian was still used for writings on mathematics, astronomy, and other learned subjects, but by the 1st century ce it had completely died out.
The principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia were Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian (together sometimes known as 'Akkadian'), Amorite, and - later - Aramaic. They have come down to us in the "cuneiform" (i.e. wedge-shaped) script, deciphered by Henry Rawlinson and other scholars in the 1850s.
Like Assyria, the Babylonian state retained the written Akkadian language (the language of its native populace) for official use, despite its Northwest Semitic -speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors, who spoke a language isolate, not being native Mesopotamians.
Akkadian is a Semitic language spoken and written in the ancient Near East from the third to the first millennia BCE. Learn about its dialects, corpus, and history at Yale, where it is taught in a sequence of courses and as a major.
29 de nov. de 2018 · Almost 2,000 years after falling out of use, a Cambridge University linguistics specialist, Dr. Martin Worthington has learned how to speak ancient Babylonian and is not only campaigning to revive it...
13 de sept. de 2013 · Through Worthington’s Complete Babylonian, one can easily familiarize oneself with the broad repertoire of Akkadian sources. He has chosen original texts from different genres in Babylonian and Assyrian dialects from the second and first millennia BC, with bibliographical references in the chapter “Key to the exercises.”
