Akkadian language

Japanese: アッカド語 - アッカドご（英語表記）Akkadian language

A language used in Mesopotamia from about 3000 BC to the Christian era. It belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is a Northeast Semitic language on its own. It is also called Assyro-Babylonian because it split into two major dialects, Assyrian and Babylonian, around 2000 BC. It is the oldest Semitic language chronologically, but it does not retain much of the Proto-Semitic language. This is thought to be because it was the first to split off from Proto-Semitic and was influenced by Sumerian, whose lineage is unclear. It is written in cuneiform, which was inherited and developed from the Sumerians, and the oldest document dates to about 2800 BC. It was gradually overtaken by Aramaic in the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

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Japanese:

前 3000年頃から紀元頃まで，メソポタミアで用いられていた言語。アフロ＝アジア語族のセム語派に属し，単独で北東セム語をなす。前 2000年頃からアッシリア語とバビロニア語の二大方言に分れたため，アッシリア＝バビロニア語ともいわれる。セム語のうち年代的に最古のものであるが，セム祖語の面影はあまりとどめていない。これはセム祖語から最初に分れ，しかも系統関係の不明なシュメール語の影響を受けたためと考えられている。シュメール人から受継ぎ発展させた楔形文字で書かれ，最古の文献は前 2800年頃。前7～6世紀に徐々にアラム語に圧倒された。

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