AKKADIAN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)