Akkadian language
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"Akkadian" redirects here. For the empire, see Akkadian Empire.Not to be confused with Acadian language.
Akkadian lišānum akkadītum Spoken in Assyria and Babylonia Region Mesopotamia Extinct 100 AD Language family Afro-Asiatic- Semitic
- East Semitic
- Akkadian
- East Semitic
Writing system Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform Official status Regulated by No official regulation Language codes ISO 639-2 akk ISO 639-3 akk This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Ancient
MesopotamiaEuphrates · Tigris Sumer Eridu · Kish · Uruk · Ur
Lagash · Nippur · GirsuElam Susa · Anshan Akkadian Empire Akkad · Mari Amorites Isin · Larsa Babylonia Babylon · Chaldea Assyria Assur · Nimrud
Dur-Sharrukin · NinevehMesopotamia (Dynasty list) Sumer (king list) Kings of Elam
Kings of Assyria
Kings of BabylonEnûma Elish · Gilgamesh Assyrian religion Sumerian · Elamite Akkadian · Aramaic Hurrian · Hittite Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum,
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