How To Use Akkadian In A Sentence
- Most of our sources about the 'apiru are in the Akkadian language, and the Akkadians didn't have that sound, so they transliterated it with a "hah" sign. The Common Origin of and Split Between Arabs and Jews - An Interview with Professor George E. Mendenhall
- Akkadian also inherited homophony from Sumerian, the capacity of different signs to represent the same sound. The Whisperers
- Cuneiform was in many ways unsuited to Akkadian: among its flaws was its inability to represent important phonemes in Semitic, including a glottal stop, pharyngeals, and emphatic consonants.
- Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
- They were Sumerian and Akkadian words inscribed in parallel columns on clay tablets in cuneiform writing and were organized thematically.
- Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs.
- The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Aramaic and in Akkadian ilu as an ordinary word for god. Archive 2009-09-01
- The poems are written in Akkadian and Sumerian, the latter a mainly academic, scribal language, the former a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic.
- The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic.
