Akkadian

[ uh-key-dee-uh n, uh-kah- ]

/ əˈkeɪ di ən, əˈkɑ- /

the eastern Semitic language, now extinct, of Assyria and Babylonia, written with a cuneiform script.

one of the Akkadian people.

Obsolete. Sumerian.

of or belonging to Akkad.

of or relating to the eastern Semitic language called Akkadian.

Obsolete. Sumerian.

Origin of Akkadian

First recorded in 1850–55; Akkad + -ian

Even the conservative primary civilisations (as the Egyptian, Chinese, and Akkadian) rested on much race mixture.

The Evolution of States |J. M. Robertson
Mr. G. Bertin, the Akkadian scholar, favours the same conclusion.

Palestine |Claude Reignier Conder
By these it is shown to be clearly a Mongol language, closely related with the Akkadian, though somewhat later.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 |Various
They were adopted in varying modes for writing Semitic and Aryan languages, as well as the native Akkadian.

Palaeography |Bernard Quaritch

A god called Uz has for his name the Akkadian word for goat.

Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria |Lewis Spence

Akkadian

/ (əˈkædɪən, əˈkeɪ-) /

a member of an ancient Semitic people who lived in central Mesopotamia in the third millennium bc

the extinct language of this people, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family

of or relating to this people or their language