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AKKADIAN [2 records]

Record 1 1993-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

Extinct Semitic language of the Northern Peripheral group, spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC and written with a cuneiform script.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue sémitique ancienne, utilisée en Mésopotamie du IIIe au 1er millénaire avant Jésus-Christ. L'akkadien constitue à lui seul le rameau oriental des langues sémitiques, dont il est la langue la plus anciennement attestée.

Spanish

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Record 2 1983-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a Semitic people who absorbed the Sumerians during the third millennium B.C.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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