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| | Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | With the emergence of Islam, the ascent of Aramaic was dealt a fatal blow by the Arab conquests, which made another Semitic language — Arabic — the official language of an empire stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. | | | Hebrew, long extinct, was revived at the end of the 19th century by the Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, owing to the ideology of Zionism, and has become the main language of Israel, while remaining the liturgical language of Jews worldwide. | | | Several small ethnic groups, especially the Assyrians, continue to speak Aramaic in the mountains of northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and Syria, while an older descendant of Aramaic, Syriac, is used liturgically by many Iraqi Christians. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_language
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| | Languge death |
| | The language of writing for this particular scribe and his milieu was still Sumerian, but in reporting stylized direct speech he acknowledged that the vernacular in his world was already Akkadian. | | | The choice of official language is a political and ideological issue and not an ethnic one. | | | If we rule out such catastrophes, then we are probably dealing with but one more instance of language shift, that is the replacement of one spoken language with another. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/DIGLOS~1.htm
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| | Judaism |
| | My goal is to make freely available a wide variety of basic, general information about Judaism, written from a traditional perspective in plain English." Maintained by Tracey Rich. | | | Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel." | | | This site offers information about the Association's efforts to encourage further research and teaching regarding Judaism in China. |
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http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/judaism.htm
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| | Akkadian Empire |
| | The driving force of that empire was the Akkadians, so called after the city of Akkad, which Sargon chose for his capital (it has not yet been identified but was presumably located on the Euphrates between Sippar and Kish). | | | Yet it is feasible to assume that in his case a high court office served as springboard for a dynasty of his own. | | | Semites [whether Akkadians or a Semitic language group that had settled before them] may have had a part in the urbanization that took place at the end of the 4th millennium. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/akkadian.html
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| | Akkadian cuneiform |
| | Akkadian, a Semitic language that was spoken in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) between about 2800 BC and 500 AD. | | | Between 200 and 400 symbols were used to Akkadian, though in some texts many more appear. | | | Akkadian, like Japanese, was polysyllabic and used a range of inflections while Sumerian, like Chinese, had few or no inflections. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/akkadian.htm
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| | languagehat.com: THE LANGUAGE OF AKKADIAN. |
| | The Akkadian of 2400-2100 BCE is a language, and I can't link it to any ethnic group. | | | I believe that Cajun is one of the languages of the Dravidian diaspora. | | | But it occurred to me that it might be taken as parallel to "the island of Manhattan," and it also occurred to me that this might be an example of the increasing lag between the state of my own dialect and the ever-changing state of the language as she is spoke. |
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http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001868.php
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| | Sumerian Language |
| | The period of the dynasties of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon is called the Old Babylonian period, after Babylon, which became the capital and the most important city in the country. | | | This is the last stage of the Sumerian language, called Post-Sumerian. | | | Ural-Altaic (which includes Turkish), Dravidian, Brahui, Bantu, and many other groups of languages have been compared with Sumerian, but no theory has gained common acceptance. |
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http://ragz-international.com/sumerian_language.htm
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| | CDLJ 2003:4 |
| | In view of these past scholarly achievements, attempting a relative positioning of Ur III Akkadian within the early history of Akkadian is more realistic today than ever before. | | | The [Akkadian] dialect predominantly documented during the Sargonic period is presumably the native tongue of the Akkade rulers and their elites, which was consistently introduced as the official language of administration. | | | This is the case not only because Ur III Akkadian represents a practical chronological link between Sargonic Akkadian on the one hand and Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian on the other, but also because until very recently it was a matter of pure speculation what linguistic properties Ur III Akkadian did indeed possess. |
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http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2003/cdlj2003_004.html
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| | Language & Text Holdings of the Cuneiform Studies Lab |
| | Bergsträsser, Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches (trans. | | | E.A. Speiser, "Akkadian Documents from Ras Shamra," (reprinted from Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 75, Number 3, July-Sept., 1955) 154-165. | | | Caplice, Introduction to Akkadian (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1983). |
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http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jcreeves/csllanguages.htm
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| | Sumerian Language & Writing |
| | Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as Hebrew, Akkadian, which also comprises Babylonian and Assyrian, and Aramaic, which are Semitic languages, and Elamite, which may be an Elamo-Dravidian language. | | | In an ergative language the subject of a sentence with a direct object is in the so-called ergative case, which in Sumerian is marked with the suffix -e. | | | Sumerian has also been claimed to have two tenses (past and present-future), but these are currently described as completive and incompletive aspects instead. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/sumerlanguage.html
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| | Akkadian words in today's Assyrian speech |
| | The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian the language of a people who together with Sumerians became the predecessors of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians. | | | Gradually it was accepted as the the ecclesiastical and cultural language of the Aramaic speaking Christians of the region. | | | The evidence of side by side existance of the two langauges at 4th century B.C. is an Aramic document from Urk which has been written in cuneiform. |
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http://christiansofiraq.com/dict./assyria1.html
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| | Akkadian Fonts, Akkadian Reference, Akkadian Software - Mac, Akkadian Software - Windows, Akkadian System, |
| | Akkadian - Extinct Languag of Iran - one of the Semitic languages, Akkadian was once a ruling language of the Iraq and Syria. | | | Akkadian is named after Akkad, the capital of the Empire ruled by Sargon.Speakers of Akkadian,advancing Northwards from the Arabian peninsula, had occupied the region and their language had begun to replace Sumerian in everyday use. | | | Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Akkadian.htm?CalledFrom=210325
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| | Akkadian (Cuneiform) - Akkadian (Cuneiform) Language |
| | The samples of 2000 languages in the world | | | When yet no gods were manifest, nor names pronounced, nor destinies decreed, then gods were born within them. |
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http://www.language-museum.com/a/akkadian-cuneiform.php
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| | Sumerian language -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Provides historical details and extensive information on the gods and heroes worshipped by these ancient people. | | | A succinct saying that is in general use and that expresses widely held ideas and beliefs is known as a proverb. | | | Semitic language of the Northern Central (also called Northwestern) group; it is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, with which it is often placed by scholars in a Canaanite subgroup. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109817?tocId=9109817
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| | Babylonia: country, language, religion, culture |
| | The Sumerian language had by now been replaced by Akkadian, but was still learned by people and the ancient texts were still copied. | | | The Akkadian language is called after Agade, a not identified city that was the first to use Akkadian as the language of its chancellery. | | | The Persian government increasingly preferred Aramaic as the language of their chancellery, and the Akkadian language was no longer used in the Achaemenid royal inscriptions after the reign of Artaxerxes I (465-424). |
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http://www.livius.org/ba-bd/babylon/babylonia.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Akkadian |
| | While the cuneiform writing system was created and used at first only by the Sumerians, it did not take long before neighboring groups adopted it for their own use. | | | By about 2500 BCE, the Akkadian, a Semitic-speaking people that dwelled north of the Sumerians, starting using cuneiform to write their own language. | | | Together the sequence gives Babilum, or "Gate of the God", where the god in question would be Marduk, the patron god of Babylon. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/akkadian.html
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| | Akkadian language |
| | Semitic language, which served as the common language of peoples of the Middle East for about 300 years, from the 9th century until the 7th century BCE when Aramaic started to supplant it. | | | The language was in use for 2,500 years in and around Mesopotamia. | | | 9th century BCE: The Babylonian dialect of Akkadian has established itself as the lingua franca of the Middle East. |
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http://lexicorient.com/e.o/akkadn.htm
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| | Awilum.com » Akkadian Language |
| | This article would be much better without it. | | | Kouwenberg considers the difficult feature of Akkadian, the Gt-stem, in his article entitled “Reflections on the Gt-Stem in Akkadian” that appears in vol. | | | He consulted several of the standard scholarly translations, and tried to form his own version of the story into beautiful literature. |
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http://awilum.com/?cat=5
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| | Akkadian language (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts) |
| | Akkadian is a great cultural language of world history. | | | Akkadian, a great cultural language of world history, an introduction | | | Part of a colophon like the ancient scribes would sometimes give: |
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http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bxpoma/akkadeng/akkadengindex.htm
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| | OUP: Syntactic Change in Akkadian: Deutscher |
| | For general linguists this book will be of interest not only for the questions which it raises about the nature of complementation, but also for the window which it provides on to this little-known language. | | | Part III seeks to explain the historical developments in a theoretical light, showing how the development in Akkadian is mirrored in many other languages. | | | A sample of this book is available in PDF format. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-829988-5
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| | Babylon Lingua: Information - Fonts - Akkadian |
| | This instantly transforms your keyboard to and from Akkadian. | | | LaserAkkadian features two input systems coordinated with the five Akkadian fonts for use in Microsoft Word which allows the complete set of signs to be typed without changing fonts. | | | The Akkadian signs may also be selected directly from the font menu of any word processor. |
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http://www.inthebeginning.org/babylonlingua/language/akkadian.htm
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| | Web Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language |
| | Evolution of Human Languages, An international project on the linguistic prehistory of humanity | | | News items about UCLA's Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Dept. | | | Speaking in Tongues:Theories on the Origins of Language |
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http://www.sumerian.org/sumlinks.htm
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| | UCLA NELC Courses in Semitics |
| | Selected readings from Akkadian myths and epics, with introduction to historical tradition of the works and their literary structure. | | | Course for students who participate regularly in class meetings but without the homework required in course 240. | | | Course for students who participate regularly in class meetings but without the homework required in course 241. |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/nelc/Courses_Semitics.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Akkadian Language and Literature |
| | Akkadian Language and Literature, extinct Semitic language dating from the 3rd millennium bc, and the texts written in it, of the ancient region of... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: | | | Find more about Akkadian Language and Literature from |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561734/Akkadian_Language_and_Literature.html
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| | Akkadian language schools and courses |
| | Search the edufind website or the entire internet. | | | We don't have any listing for Akkadian at the moment. | | | Use the search box below to find Akkadian courses |
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http://www.edufind.com/languages/learn_Akkadian.cfm
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| | Index of Akkadian language" |
| | Your client doesnot support Frames, please see the old Akkadian language page. | | | A Frame-capable browser may be obtained at Netscape, with version number 2.0 or larger. |
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http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/Welcome_akkadian.html
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| | Iraq Museum International: Museum Directory |
| | Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. | | | Top: Science: Social_Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Afro-Asiatic: Akkadian: |
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http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/dir/index.php?c=/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Afro-Asiatic/Akkadian
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