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AKKADIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Akkadian mean?
• AKKADIAN (noun)
The noun AKKADIAN has 1 sense:
1. an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
Familiarity information: AKKADIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient branch of the Semitic languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Akkadian" is a kind of...):
Semitic (a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family)
Domain region:
Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Akkadian"):
Assyrian; Assyrian Akkadian (an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia)
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