University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1952, 1961, 1973 | Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics |
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The deciphering of the texts started immediately, and bilinguals, in particular -Akkadian bilinguals, were of great help | Alter Orient und Altes Testament AOAT |
ISBN 2-7053-3583-8 Technical literature on specific subjects• By this time it was already evident that Akkadian was a Semitic language, and the final breakthrough in deciphering the language came from in the middle of the 19th century.
29Materials for the Assyrian dictionary, no | Biblical Institute Press, Rome 1988, 2002 4 |
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Mercer, Samuel A B 1961 | Part II: Die Texte in Umschrift |
Late Babylonian, 600 BCE—100 CE An Akkadian inscription Old Assyrian evolved as well during the second millennium BCE, but because it was a purely popular language — kings wrote in Babylonian —, few long texts are preserved.
Harvard Semitic Museum Studies 45 | |
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A Structural Grammar of Babylonian | Walter Sommerfeld: Bemerkungen zur Dialektgliederung Altakkadisch, Assyrisch und Babylonisch |