AKKADIAN
Language of Empires - From Sargon to Nebuchadnezzar
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Akkadian Text Corpus
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Sacred and Literary Texts
The great literary works of Mesopotamia preserved in Akkadian
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Akkadian Word Concordance
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About the Akkadian Language
Akkadian (lisan Akkadim) was a Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia from roughly 2800 BCE to 100 CE -- making it one of the longest-attested languages in human history. It served as the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for over two millennia, used in diplomacy from Egypt to Anatolia to Iran.
Written in cuneiform script borrowed from Sumerian, Akkadian split into two major dialects: Babylonian (southern Mesopotamia) and Assyrian (northern Mesopotamia). The greatest works of Mesopotamian literature -- the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish creation epic, the Atrahasis flood story -- were composed or preserved in Akkadian.
This corpus contains 9,817 Akkadian texts from the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC), spanning from Old Akkadian through Neo-Babylonian periods. The lexicon draws from the Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD2) and curated scholarly sources.
Akkadian Dialects in This Corpus
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