Talk:Akkadian language

message: It's confusing to people to first see the official language box, but then read that it was official, and isn't currently. I recommend removing that box and placing the information on another section in the article, or rename if former official status at least. IlStudioso 00:28, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the "official status" block is only for languages that have current official status, which means something different than it did in the 2nd millennium BCE. (Taivo (talk) 00:51, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Official'' language?

message: I understand that there has been/is a revert war on BCE/BC in this article, and so I'm not going to do anything to it, but having both systems present in the one article is confusing and looks unprofessional. Could the next person who changes sets about to change it, for whatever reason, please be systematic?Zjanes (talk) 23:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch.  I made everything uniform with BCE/CE (which was the oldest pattern for this article). (Taivo (talk) 01:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC/BCE 

message: Removed from article:
:Add something about the 4x4 verb stem system, as well as ventive suffixes, -ma suffixes, and such.  Also flesh out inflections, mention non-productivity of dual as well as accusative/genitive falling together as objective in dual/plural.  Also mention status absolutus, status rectus, and status constructus, which are arguably inflections and certainly morphological forms.
Ortolan88
Professial Akkadian reference books:
* Markus Hilgert, Akkadisch in der Ur III-Zeit (IMGULA 5. Münster: Rhema, 2002)--Standforder (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: removed from article

message: This article seems contradictory because it says of the Akkadian language: "...it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate". How can it be "derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian", but then Sumerian is referred to as "an unrelated language isolate". If it is derived from the Sumerian, then how can the Sumerian be unrelated ?
:The writing system is derived from the writing system used by Akkadian although the languages themselves are unrelated, just as the English writing system is derived from that used by Latin despite English not being derived from Latin.  How can we rephrase that to be less confusing for novice readers? Ben (talk) 11:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe something like "...it used the cuneiform writing system, which was originally used to write ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate". By the way, English is partly derived from Latin; a large number of English words is ultimately of Latin origin. -- Lindert (talk) 14:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the rephrasing -- I like that proose.  Akkadian had a similar proportion of Sumerian loanwords.  That does not make them related, however, any more than loanwords make English and Latin relelated. Ben (talk) 14:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess you're right, English is technically a Germanic language, but over half of all English words are of Latin or French (derived from Latin) origin. And besides, English and Latin are definitely related if you go further back, as they are both part of the Indo-European language family. -- Lindert (talk) 15:28, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  And now that we've pedanted each-other to death, I'll go add your wording to the article. Ben (talk) 19:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity 

message: Are the earliest written samples of Akkadian found at Akkad in Mesopotamia or at Mari, Syria?  The Mari article states that the inhabitants spoke Akkadian, and the tablets there are apparently pretty old.
:How old are the Syrian tablets, and how old are the Mesopotamian tablets? That would help more than just posting anonymously that they're "pretty old" David80 13:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earliest attestations? 

message: I've added some new information to the grammar section, but it still needs a lot of work.  Feel free to clean it up however you see fit.
=== Standards of Measure===
: Rktect 8/9/05
: I'm looking for any difference betwen Sumerian and Akkadian 
: standards of measure at Kish, Agade, Sipparta, Ashur, Mari, Ebla
: for the following periods 
: Early Dynastic I
: Early Dynastic II
: Early Dynastic III
: starting when Sargon alludes to the ships of Melluha, Makkan and Dilmun
: Docking at the quays of Agade and ending with the Neo Sumerian revival.
: In particular I'm looking for the differences between the standards
: of Naram Sin and Gudea.
===Questions from a linguist===
As a linguist who knows nothing about Akkadian, I have a couple questions/ requests for clarification.
Under "Writing system", the article says "cuneiform was a syllabary writing system — i.e. a consonant plus vowel comprised one writing unit — frequently inappropriate for a Semitic language made up of triconsonantal roots (i.e. three consonants minus any vowels)."  I'm not understanding what the form of roots has to do with writing texts in the language.  Sentences are not normally formed with verb roots, but with inflected verbs.  As such, a verb would have at least some vowels (well, you can have vowel-less words in languages like Salish or Berber, even occasionally in English, but it's not typical of Semitic languages to have vowel-less conjugated words).  So the point about roots being (usually) triconsonantal seems irrelevant.  What *might* be relevant (although I'm sure it's hard to tell with an extinct language) is the existence of geminate consonants or consonant clusters in conjugated verbs; but that has nothing to do with the roots, AFAIK.  Or am I missing something?
Under "Grammar", it says "[Akkadian had] unique verb conjugations for each first, second, and third person pronoun."  I'm not sure what it means to have verb conjugations for *pronouns*, or what it means to have *unique* verb conjugations for each person.  Maybe what is meant is that verbs were conjugated for the person of the subject?  ("Subject" is relevant here, since there are many languages that also conjugate transitive verbs for the person of the object or other verbal arguments.)
Also "Adjectives are declined exactly like nouns."  Is there any indication that adjectives differed from nouns in any way (in the syntax maybe)?  There are plenty of languages in the world which do not distinguish adjectives as a part of speech distinct from nouns (or distinct from verbs), and for all I know, Akkadian might be one.  (Remember, I know nothing about Akkadian!)
"There are three tenses: present, preterite and permansive. Present tense indicates incomplete action and preterite tense indicates complete action, while permansive tense expresses a state or condition and usually takes a particle."  It sounds to me like Akkadian did not have tense, it had aspect: maybe completive vs. incompletive aspect.  I'm not sure what this "permansive" is, but maybe a stative aspect?  And I don't understand what it means for the permansive to "take" a particle--on the assumption that there were many particles, is it known what caused a particular permansive verb to take one or the other particle?  Lexical?  Or is there a distinction in meaning?  Are the particles functioning something like auxiliary verbs do (like modals in English, maybe)?
Mcswell (talk) 22:02, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar Section

message: As a linguist who knows nothing about Akkadian, I have a couple questions/ requests for clarification.
Under "Writing system", the article says "cuneiform was a syllabary writing system — i.e. a consonant plus vowel comprised one writing unit — frequently inappropriate for a Semitic language made up of triconsonantal roots (i.e. three consonants minus any vowels)."  I'm not understanding what the form of roots has to do with writing texts in the language.  Sentences are not normally formed with verb roots, but with inflected verbs.  As such, a verb would have at least some vowels (well, you can have vowel-less words in languages like Salish or Berber, even occasionally in English, but it's not typical of Semitic languages to have vowel-less conjugated words).  So the point about roots being (usually) triconsonantal seems irrelevant.  What *might* be relevant (although I'm sure it's hard to tell with an extinct language) is the existence of geminate consonants or consonant clusters in conjugated verbs; but that has nothing to do with the roots, AFAIK.  Or am I missing something?
Under "Grammar", it says "[Akkadian had] unique verb conjugations for each first, second, and third person pronoun."  I'm not sure what it means to have verb conjugations for *pronouns*, or what it means to have *unique* verb conjugations for each person.  Maybe what is meant is that verbs were conjugated for the person of the subject?  ("Subject" is relevant here, since there are many languages that also conjugate transitive verbs for the person of the object or other verbal arguments.)
Also "Adjectives are declined exactly like nouns."  Is there any indication that adjectives differed from nouns in any way (in the syntax maybe)?  There are plenty of languages in the world which do not distinguish adjectives as a part of speech distinct from nouns (or distinct from verbs), and for all I know, Akkadian might be one.  (Remember, I know nothing about Akkadian!)
"There are three tenses: present, preterite and permansive. Present tense indicates incomplete action and preterite tense indicates complete action, while permansive tense expresses a state or condition and usually takes a particle."  It sounds to me like Akkadian did not have tense, it had aspect: maybe completive vs. incompletive aspect.  I'm not sure what this "permansive" is, but maybe a stative aspect?  And I don't understand what it means for the permansive to "take" a particle--on the assumption that there were many particles, is it known what caused a particular permansive verb to take one or the other particle?  Lexical?  Or is there a distinction in meaning?  Are the particles functioning something like auxiliary verbs do (like modals in English, maybe)?
Mcswell (talk) 22:02, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions from a linguist

message: According to "Extinct Languages" (Friedrich, Johannes - , 1993 translation of the 1957 German edition), symbols can be an ideogram, a determinative or a phonetic symbol sign. He goes on to say that another form of polyvariance - less common in earlier Akkadian but more frequent in later forms - was "polyphony", where the same sign represented phonetically different syllables. (Thus the sign meaning "kid" could also represent "sab" or "lil".)
: That's a different kind of variation from the ideogram (also called sumerogram)/determinative/phonetic variation. Polyphony is when a sign has several phonetic values. A sign can also be used as two, or all three, of the different uses. — Arnsholt (talk) 17:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Polyvalence

message: I've updated the references section with a few current editions. I'll takle an expansion of the gramar section soon.
Genesis 03:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: The grammar section seems to contradict itself:
"Akkadian [...] possesses two genders (masculine and feminine), distinguished even in second person pronouns (you-masc., you-fem.) and verb conjugations [...]
Akkadian nouns are declined according to gender, number and case. There are three genders; masculine, feminine and common. Only a very few nouns belong to the common gender. [...]"
So does Akkadian have two genders or three?
Khepidjemwa'atnefru 04:35, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender in Akkadian? 

message: The "Akkadian litterature" links include Enheduanna. She was called the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, but she wrote in Sumerian, as far as I know, and "Akkadian litterature" in an article on the Akkadian language would mean "litterature in the Akkadian language". So I think Enheduanna shouldn't be listed here. --85.187.203.123 21:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They are both Semitic languages - but "close"?  About as close as English to German.104.169.39.45 (talk) 01:10, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enheduanna 

message: I'm considering replacing the current article with a translation of the one from Norwegian wikipedia (Akkadisk). As far as I can make out, the article is ultimately derived from the German article, by way of Swedish. All three articles have been featured articles on their respective Wikipedias, and look like high-quality articles to me. Any comments? — Arnsholt (talk) 17:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it, but please retain the English bibliography and the language template. (Taivo (talk) 18:57, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: this article has as its scope the entire history of the language, not just its earliest "Akkadian" phase (2300 to 2000 BC). In the Old Assyrian/Babylonian to Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian period (2000 to 600 BC), it isn't usually known as "Akkadian". I don't object to the article residing at this title, but the relations need to be made clear. dab (𒁳) 17:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the introduction to match with the title.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghksono (talk • contribs) 18:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: article scope

message: Wikipedia policy has been fairly uniform now for a couple of years.  If an article is "historically" BC it stays BC.  If an article is "historically" BCE it stays BCE.  This article has been BCE for at least a couple of years now.  It is a BCE article. (Taivo (talk) 13:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC/BCE, Stop the Revert War 

message: The article seemed to add a reference to the affricate theory as an afterthought. Tried to clarify the one cited piece of evidence that points to the "traditional" š, etc. sibilant reconstructions as incorrect and better described as affricates, but I didn't want to paste in all of Dyakonov's work, which also compares loanword interchange all pointing to most of the relevant cuneiform symbols referring to affricate sounds.  
(http://archives.conlang.info/gae/ghoenqhu/gaubholpian.html is an abbreviated translation of the relatively dense and impenetrable originals:  I. M. Dyakonov, Akkadskij jazyk, - in: Jazyki Azii i Afriki/Semitskie jazyki. No. IV/1 in the series: Jazyki Azii i Afriki, Moskva, Glavnaja redakcija vostochnoj literatury, 1991 and Vvedenije. Afrazijskie jazyki--ibid.  
In the translation, which is in ASCII(!), "s" represents a sibilant, "c" an affricate, "c." an emphatic affricate, and "3" a voiced affricate, while the place information is given by the following "`" for lateral and "^" for palatal.  One practically has to know Russian to glean this from the English translation!) 
A slightly more comprehensible version, though nothing like as comprehensive, is found in The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum, by Roger D. Woodard, sec. 2.4/2.5 of the description of Akkadian (pp. 89-94). Mellsworthy (talk) 01:40, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hopefully cleaned up some confusion 

message: Note that there are broken plurals in Maltese.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.223.218 (talk) 13:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In adding back that particular sentence I've purged the mention of Maltese. It clearly does use broken plurals. Mo-Al (talk) 03:06, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maltese 

message: In the table under the section "Proto-Semitic phonemes and their correspondences among Akkadian, Arabic and Tiberian Hebrew" there are places where several proto-Semitic phonemes have the same reflex in Akkadian, and this simplified correspondence is made clear by the removal of the proto-Semitic separation-lines, but in the case of the other languages, especially Hebrew, the proto-Semitic separation-lines are still there, thus making it a bit more difficult to compare with Akkadian or other columns. Can those unnecessary horizontal lines be removed, please? Jakob37 (talk) 03:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess it looks better now.--Xevorim (talk) 07:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

text: One more little thing: the "ayin" in the table looked so tiny, more like a little apostrophe than the traditional appearance of the transliterated "ayin", so I changed it to something not too big or too small (at the right end of the Wiki IPA list), but if possible it should look bold like the others - and the Hebrew needs changing too.... Jakob37 (talk) 00:13, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggest revision for table comparing Akkadian - Arabic - Hebrew 

message: 1) The transcriptions in the table do not seem to be standard; e.g. instead of tˤ, shouldn't it be tˀ ? - And there is some controversy, is there not, about the actual pronunciation: were they ejectives, as your preferred symbols seem to indicate, or pharyngeals (the symbols in parentheses)? Perhaps a short discussion of the controversy would help; I'd work on it, but it's hard to get the materials here in Taiwan. Jakob37 (talk) 00:42, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the emphatics 

message: Is it correct to term it in such a manner? I don't think semitic languages were spoken in North Africa during the times of the Akkadian Empire. - Yorkshirian (talk) 22:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Afro-Asiatic is the name of the language family that is mainly based in East Africa. South-, Central and East Cushitic, Omotic, Beja and Semitic all occur in East Africa. Hausa in West Africa, Berber in Northwest Africa and Ancient Egyptian in Northeast Africa. The most diverse Semitica languages are spoken in East Africa, then Southern Arabia, then the Levant, then Mesopotamia. In other words, the closer to the East African homeland of Semitic, the more complex and older the languages. Map of the Semitic languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages#/media/File:Semitic_languages.svg  83.84.100.133 (talk) 18:32, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

text: Afro-Asiatic is the name of a specific language family, much like Indo-European.  The name has a regional basis, but there are Indo-European languages spoken, for example, in South Africa.  — Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 00:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Bad example-English and Afrikaans are both the result of direct modern European colonization in South Africa - it didn't "migrate" there naturally over the course of millennia.HammerFilmFan (talk) 07:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Afroasiatic?

message: I've moved the title to Assyro-Babylonian as it appears to be far more common.
*Assyro-Babylonian language (127,000)
*Akkadian language (26,700)
Izzedine 06:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, Izzedine, it is not far more common.  Linguists refer to this language as Akkadian almost universally.  You cannot use a Google search as evidence.  The problem you are encountering is that there are two stages to the history of Akkadian--the period before the two dialects of Assyrian and Babylonian differentiated, and the period after.  The pre-separation period is labelled as Old Akkadian.  Then the two dialects are individually labelled Assyrian and Babylonian.  But the language as a whole is always labelled in linguistic literature as Akkadian.  Akkadian is used for the language as a whole and Old Akkadian, Old Babylonian, Old Assyrian, Middle Babylonian, Middle Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian, and Late Babylonian as labels for the different temporal and geographical divisions.  Do not move this without submitting a Move Request, soliciting input, and providing your evidence (which does not include a simple Google search).  Standard references include Giorgio Buccellati ("Akkadian," The Semitic Languages (1997, pp. 69ff)), John Huehnergard and Christopher Woods ("Akkadian and Eblaite," The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages (2004, pp. 218ff.)), and Jerrold S. Cooper ("Sumerian and Akkadian," The World's Writing Systems (1996, pp. 37ff.)).  This does not include the many language classifications that exclusively use "Akkadian".  Not a single one of these sources even uses "Assyro-Babylonian" as an option.  (Taivo (talk) 07:34, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Linguists constitute a minority, and we go by common usage.. and Google searches are always used to gauge prevalence of terms. You can't have your cake and eat it Taivo. I'm not advocating uniforming references in the article to match the title though, given that "Akkadian" is well-established and as you note preferred by linguists. An alternative title suggestion then - Akkadian language (Assyro-Babylonian). Out of interest, would you know what the Akkadian name for the language is? Izzedine 07:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In an article about language, linguists are the most important group to consider.  Look at WP:NCON and you will see that raw Google searches are not to be considered as primary evidence for a name.  The article title should never include parenthesized material unless the title is ambiguous, which this one is not.  The first sentence of the lead can contain the alternate name, "Assyro-Babylonian", but the article should remain Akkadian since that is the name used by linguists and the name that is most commonly encountered in linguistic literature.  I will oppose any move out of the standard linguistic name of this language--Akkadian.  If you want to move it, submit a move request and submit your evidence and I will submit mine.  (Taivo (talk) 08:03, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A book search proves that the term is widely-used, about a third as much as "Akkadian". Izzedine 08:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is only one piece of acceptable evidence and should never be used without due care and a careful examination of the results.  Other equally important pieces of evidence are usage in encyclopedias, usage in academia, usage in news media, etc.  If you want to submit a move request, then do so and we'll gather the relevant evidence.  (Taivo (talk) 08:19, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Actually, considering (what you explained) about the linguistic classification, I agree with keeping it Akkadian, but I think Akkadian language (Assyro-Babylonian) is worth considering. I remember a few years ago on Wikipedia I had to search for a while before I could find out what language the Babylonians spoke, and then my surprise that the Assyrians and Babylonians both spoke the same language. Izzedine 08:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia discourages the use of parenthetical terms as article titles unless it is a case of disambiguating things.  Here "language" disambiguates from culture and other things Akkadian, but there is no other Akkadian language.  Alternate names should be in the first sentence and bolded (which Assyro-Babylonian already is).  Anyone typing "Assyro-Babylonian language" in the Wikipedia search box is going to come here anyway.  I also notice that both "Babylonian language" and "Assyrian language" redirect here as well.  So that should cover anyone looking for that information today.  (Taivo (talk) 08:33, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point. Izzedine 08:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Re the "native name".  I'm not a specialist on Akkadian, but I doubt that it is known.  It's not one of the most common vocabulary items to be encountered, especially in ancient texts.  (Taivo (talk) 08:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure it's known, considering how much written material has been discovered. Izzedine 08:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that people may have had a name that they used for their local dialect, but rarely did they lump these together into a common language.  During Old Akkadian, there may have been a common name for the language of the Akkadian Empire, but once the Assyrian and Babylonian dialects differentiated, there was probably not a name for the common language--only for each dialect.  Look at Russian and Ukrainian today.  These "languages" are mutually intelligible, but there is no common name for the two as a unit (other than the classificatory name used by linguists--"East Slavic").  I have seen Ukrainian speakers and Russian speakers understanding each other fairly well, but when asked what they are speaking, the Russian speaker says "Russian" and the Ukrainian speaker says "Ukrainian".  This was undoubtedly the case in the past as well.  (Taivo (talk) 08:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I see what you mean, that's a good explanation. Izzedine 08:43, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

text: The name by which the language was known to it's natives is Lishanu Akkaditu, Lishanu from the common Semitic term for tongue (see the Classical Arabic cognate Lisan) and Akkaditu being the nominative form of Akkadian  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.65.192.1 (talk) 18:49, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ref?  Cite? HammerFilmFan (talk) 17:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Assyro-Babylonian

message: The vowel chart seems inverted with respect to "open" and "closed" vowels.  Typically 'i' and 'u' refer to closed vowels while 'a' refers to some type of open vowel.  I don't know enough to know where the mistake is, but there seems to be a problem there.  Artificialintel (talk) 20:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. 4pq1injbok (talk) 16:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vowel Chart 

message: I have Unicode fonts activated and quite a good multilingual font installed but akkadian is one of those rare times the foreign characters don't display for me, so I assume this would be the case for many readers too. Is there a free / open-source font we could put as a  recommendation to install? |Moemin05 (talk) 10:51, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What we have seems to be at the bottom of Cuneiform (Unicode block); see also the section at the top of this discussion page... AnonMoos (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Font Display Issues 

message: I was querying Dr. Cornelia Wunsch about an article that mentioned the book she wrote with Dr Pearce, Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer.  The article called the language Akkadian and I thought, as this article says, that Akkadian was a dead language by then.  Her answer was that the language of Nebuchadnetsar and later, a living language, is now called the Neo-Babylonian dialect of Akkadian.  Read the book and update your article.
71.163.117.143 (talk) 12:46, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: also see this article: https://www.academia.edu/4723117/Aspects_of_Aramaic_and_Babylonian_Linguistic_Interaction_in_First_Millennium_BC_Iraq  71.163.117.143 (talk) 12:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure exactly what you're saying -- there was some written usage all the way down to Roman times, but after the Persian conquest, Akkadian was no longer the everyday spoken language of the majority of the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, nor the official administrative language of the central government. AnonMoos (talk) 02:42, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  death greatly exaggerated 

message: Could someone please add the cuneiform written form of the numbers given in the Akkadian language#Numerals section? It would be great to have something equivalent to this description of Sumerian number-writing. HLHJ (talk) 19:59, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for cuneiform numbers 

message: The Etruscan obsession with haruspicy (their liver-reading priests were called 'maru')  (Akkadian 'baru') and certain name forms seem to indicate a possible link with Akkadian or Sumerian. Maybe they were refugees or settlers from Babylon who came to italy via Lemnos (based on Lemnian language links and their patheon). ??who knows. It may be a fruitful avenue of enquiry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.190.193 (talk) 09:02, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a place to spout off personal nonsense, nor are the Wiki Talk Pages a forum to discuss the subject of the article.  Discuss the Reliable Sources for the improvement of the article only. 68.19.8.31 (talk) 01:35, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etruscan is Semitic? 

message: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-13715296
the BBC reports the chicago oriental institute has completed a 21 volume dictionary of akkadian.
It's probably worth some content in the article
--Patbahn (talk) 23:52, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  akkadian dictionary 

message: Without any details other than I guess a disagreement, this was marked as dubious. Looking at page 37, it uses mid-3rd millennium and not the specific 27th century BC. As such, I'll adjust the language to 3rd millennium broadly. Would that suffice? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:42, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew George citation 

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 10:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Akkadian →  – to prevent the readers to be confused for a demonym. newroderick895 (talk) 10:50, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Never mind, I don't feel strongly enough about it to support. A hatnote to Akkadian Empire needs to be readded to this article at the very least. —Xezbeth (talk) 10:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
===Followup===
 DAB has been created by , and we have retargetted all links in articlespace (but not generally elsewhere). Akkadian language remained the most common target by far, but it was used not only where Akkadian Empire was intended but also (at least) Akkadians, Akkadian mythology, Akkadian literature, and Akkadian cuneiform. There are still a number of links to this page where another target might be better such as Akkadian literature for some instances of "Akkadian tablets". I believe that it's an attractive enough nuisance that DAB at basename would be better. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 10:06, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 31 March 2018 

message: DAB has been created by , and we have retargetted all links in articlespace (but not generally elsewhere). Akkadian language remained the most common target by far, but it was used not only where Akkadian Empire was intended but also (at least) Akkadians, Akkadian mythology, Akkadian literature, and Akkadian cuneiform. There are still a number of links to this page where another target might be better such as Akkadian literature for some instances of "Akkadian tablets". I believe that it's an attractive enough nuisance that DAB at basename would be better. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 10:06, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Followup

message: The statement about the Akkadian word order in section 5.1 is confusing. I understand (see also Wikipedia:Semitic Languages) 
that it was mainly SOV, influenced by Summerian.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nir 1953 cohen (talk • contribs) 07:45, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Default SOV order, according to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages... -- AnonMoos (talk) 09:58, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  word order 

message: Several letters in many words of this language are written with a circumflex, but I can't find anything about what this diacritic represents. At least under 'Vowels' it explains that the macron indicates length, but what does the circumflex represent?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.206.181.191 (talk) 21:55, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't looked closely at our article, but circumflexed vowels usually indicate long vowels resulting from contraction.  Also, sometimes a circumflexed e can indicate a long vowel which originated from an ay diphthong in earlier Semitic. AnonMoos (talk) 22:51, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Is the Purpose of the Circumflex? 

message: How do we know they had no 'Ayin with a glottal sound?  
Or do we? פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 19:13, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: First off, early Semitic `Ayn/`Ayin was a pharyngeal consonant sound, and not a glottal stop.  There's no particular evidence that any pharyngeal consonants existed in attested Akkadian (though sometimes they influenced the quality of adjecent vowels before they disappeared)... AnonMoos (talk) 05:43, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Ayin 

message: I thought two previous sections on the TP identified the original writing of this article used the "BCE/CE" system? If users of original articles utilizing BC/AD want to have their views respected, stop going around Wiki reverting things to your preferred style. 50.111.1.232 (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  article is back at BC/AD ... did I miss something? 

message: Why was the logographic spelling of the native name of the language removed? Until a few days ago we had: akkadû,  ak-ka-du-u2; logogram:  URIKI; now we have only: Akkadian:   . Panglossa [ Talk ] 22:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Are these characters visible for anyone? All I see is empty squares on my screen, no text. --StellarNerd (talk) 22:14, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to have a Unicode-encoded Cuneiform font installed, and software that can use it.  (Some older software set-ups would not display characters outside the Unicode BMP, no matter what fonts were installed.) AnonMoos (talk) 01:21, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logogram 

message: In my reading of his Grammar, the rules for stress are slightly different then the ones presented in this article.
I quote the article:
In his syllable typology there are three syllable weights: light (V, CV); heavy (CVC, CV̄, CV̂), and superheavy (CV̂C). If the last syllable is superheavy, it is stressed, otherwise the rightmost heavy non-final syllable is stressed. If a word contains only light syllables, the first syllable is stressed.
CV̂ should be classed as superheavy (although he uses the term ultraheavy), and CV̄C as well. As in the example ibnû with the stress on nû.
The final rule applies not only when a word contains only light syllables, but also when its only heavy syllable is the final syllable, as in the example zikarum with the stress on zi.
Unless the edition I am reading has been updated in a new edition. EricPiphany (talk) 11:44, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stress in Huenergard 

message: I know youtube is highly suspicious and nonstandard, but every channel teaching whichever ANE language systematically  and in earnest is extremely rare - he is an Asyriology graduate, and seems to be up to the task. Video and audio add depth to learning any language, especially for self students who may have no ability to consult and check their progress in any other way. I have no connection to the guy, but I admit that I also want to boost his confidence, and spread the news about his channel, so that he won't decide to stop one day
Anyway, please review it:
 
https://www.youtube.com/@learnakkadian 193.27.210.15 (talk) 19:48, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What do you think of adding this channel o the article? 

message: In a 2006 Article "Sibilants in the Old Babylonian texts of Hammurapi and of the governors in Qaṭṭunān" , Streck makes a pretty solid argument that /š/ was, at least most of the time, realized as a lateral affricate [tɬ]. A lateral realization was also posited by Steiner in 1977. 
Should we mention either or both of these in the article, or is more academic consensus required? 2003:E5:B713:79F2:70E0:F820:1527:F842 (talk) 18:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for alerting me that the works of Richard C. Steiner are available on-line as downloadable PDFs; I photocopied a whole book by him in the 1980s, and this is more convenient.    As for chapter 17 of his Case for Fricative-Laterals, this seems to establish that one of the contextual allophones of what is conventionally transcribed as "š" was probably lateral in the 2nd millennium B.C.    This could be mentioned in connection with the table of consonant sounds, but it wouldn't change the basic conventional transcription.      (By the way, borrowings from Akkadian into Northwest Semitic languages in the 1st millennium B.C. seem to indicate that the Akkadian sound transcribed as "š" was then closer to Northwest Semitic "s" -- e.g. Ishtar → Esther -- while Akkadian "s" was closer to NWS "š", and that hasn't been allowed to change the basic conventional transcriptions.)    As for the other article, I was unable to download a PDF of it, and have limited time to look through the images when on-line.    Maybe if you could indicate which page has the evidence for the lateral nature of the sibilant? AnonMoos (talk) 20:05, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Realization of š as lateral affricate in Babylonian