Akkadian language
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| Akkadian | |
|---|---|
| lišānum akkadītum | |
| Native to | Assyria and Babylonia |
| Region | Mesopotamia |
| Extinct | 100 CE |
| Language family |
Afro-Asiatic
|
| Writing system | Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform |
| Official status | |
| Official language in | initially Akkad (central Mesopotamia); lingua franca of the Middle East and Egypt in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | akk |
| ISO 639-3 | akk |
Akkadian (llišānum akkadītum) or Assyro-Babylonian[1] was a Semitic language (part of the Afro-Asiatic language family) that was spoken in ancient Iraq. The first Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system from ancient Sumerian.
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