Akkadian

or Ac·ca·di·an

[ uh-key-dee-uhn, uh-kah- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the eastern Semitic language, now extinct, of Assyria and Babylonia, written with a cuneiform script.
one of the Akkadian people.
Obsolete. Sumerian.

Akkadian

/ əˈkeɪ-; əˈkædɪən /

a member of an ancient Semitic people who lived in central Mesopotamia in the third millennium bc
the extinct language of this people, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family

First recorded in 1850–55; Akkad + -ian

We have already fleetingly mentioned the influence of both the Old Akkadian language and culture on the Sumerians.

There is no doubt that these read (like the early Akkadian texts) in lines with syllables arranged in columns.

The phonetic writing is, therefore, a warning against any endeavor to read the name by an Akkadian transliteration of the signs.

Mr. G. Bertin, the Akkadian scholar, favours the same conclusion.

A god called Uz has for his name the Akkadian word for goat.

By these it is shown to be clearly a Mongol language, closely related with the Akkadian, though somewhat later.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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