akkadian

English - Turkish

Definition of akkadian in English Turkish dictionary

Akad

Akkadlı, Akadyalı değildir. - Akkadian is not Acadian.

Akad dili öğreniyorum. - I'm learning Akkadian.

akat

akatça

English - English

Definition of akkadian in English English dictionary

The now extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, formerly used as an international language of diplomacy

Of or pertaining to the Akkadian language of ancient Mesopotamia

Of or pertaining to the Akkadian Empire

A Semitic inhabitant of the region of Mesopotamia near the city of Akkad

{i} ancient Semitic language of Assyria and Babylonia

{s} of or pertaining to the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Akkad; of or pertaining to Akkadian, of or pertaining to the ancient language of Assyria and Babylonia

{i} native or inhabitant of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Akkad

an ancient branch of the Semitic languages

Related Terms

Akkadian language

or Assyro-Babylonian language Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia in the 3rd-1st millennia BC. It is known from a great many inscriptions, seals, and clay tablets in cuneiform writing. Akkadian supplanted Sumerian as the major spoken language of southern Mesopotamia by 2000 BC and about this time split into an Assyrian dialect spoken in the northeast and a Babylonian dialect spoken in the south. Akkadian died out as a vernacular in the first half of the 1st millennium BC, being effectively replaced by Aramaic in Mesopotamia, though it continued to be written until about the 1st century AD

Akkadians

plural of Akkadian

Hyphenation

Ak·ka·di·an

Turkish pronunciation

ıkeydiın

Pronunciation

/əˈkādēən/ /əˈkeɪdiːən/

Etymology

() From Akkad, an important city of ancient Mesopotamia.