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  2. Akkadian language - Wikipedia

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    Akkadian (/ əˈkeɪdiən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑 (𒌝), romanized: Akkadû (m)) [7][8][9][10] is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia and perhaps Dilmun) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and ...

  3. Suret language - Wikipedia

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    Suret is a moderately- inflected, fusional language with a two- gender noun system and rather flexible word order. [20] There is some Akkadian influence on the language. [21] In its native region, speakers may use Iranian, Turkic and Arabic loanwords, while diaspora communities may use loanwords borrowed from the languages of their respective ...

  4. Aramaic - Wikipedia

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    Ārāmāyā in Syriac Esṭrangelā script Syriac-Aramaic alphabet. Aramaic (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ארמית, romanized: ˀərāmiṯ; Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ [a]) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia [3] [4] and the ...

  5. Sumerian language - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: eme-gir15[a], lit. '' native language ''[1]) was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is a local language isolate that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.

  6. Assyriology - Wikipedia

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    Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, [1][2] is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers Pre Dynastic Mesopotamia, Sumer, the early Sumero-Akkadian city ...

  7. Syriac language - Wikipedia

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    The Syriac language (/ ˈsɪriæk / SIH-ree-ak; Classical Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, romanized: Leššānā Suryāyā), [a] also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. [4][5][6] Classical Syriac ...

  8. Decipherment of cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian was the last and most ancient language to be deciphered. Sale of a number of fields, probably from Isin, c. 2600 BC. The first known Sumerian-Akkadian bilingual tablet dates from the reign of Rimush. Louvre Museum AO 5477. The top column is in Sumerian, the bottom column is its translation in Akkadian. [44] [45]

  9. Assyrian language - Wikipedia

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    Assyrian language may refer to: Ancient Assyrian language, a dialect of the ancient East Semitic Akkadian language. In modern Assyrian terminology, related to Neo-Aramaic languages: Suret language, a modern West Semitic language that belongs to the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic branch. Turoyo language, a modern West Semitic language, part of the ...