Akkadian language
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| Akkadian | ||
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| lišānum akkadītum | ||
| Spoken in | Assyria and Babylonia | |
| Region | Mesopotamia | |
| Language extinction | 100 CE | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| 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. | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | akk | |
| ISO 639-3 | akk | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Akkadian (lišānum 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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