Akkadian language

Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians (also called Assyro-Babylonian). The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated, language isolate. The name of the language is derived from the city of Akkad, a major center of Mesopotamian civilization.
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