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Akkadian
Alan R. Libert, University of Newcastle
Alan.Libert@newcastle.edu.au
Willoughby Language Festival, Oct. 5, 2019

(http://what-when-how.com/jews-and-judaism/akirov-alfred-to-akron-jews-and-judaism/)

(http://what-when-how.com/jews-and-judaism/akirov-alfred-to-akron-jews-and-judaism/)

(https://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/proto-semitic-dating-and-locating-it/)
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(http://www.ancientscripts.com/akkadian.html)

URU

 phonetic: iri, eri, ere

 phonetic, Bab. new: rí, ré, ir4, er4
 determinative: URU in front of city names
 logograms: URU URU älu `city' (https://personal.sron.nl/~jheise/signlists/list2.html)

“Boat Rental Receipt” 540 BCE

(https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/collections/notable-collections/profiles/mesopotamian-tablet.html)
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(https://mostlydeadlanguages.tumblr.com/post/136361919078/cuneiform-cookies-for-the-new-year)

“the following modi can be distinguished in Akkadian: the Indicative (imḫaṣ: “he has hit”), the Precative
(limḫaṣ: “let him hit!,” “may he hit!,” “so that he will hit,” etc.), the Cohortative (i nimḫaṣ: “let us hit!”), the
Imperative (maḫaṣ: “hit!”), the Prohibitive (lā tamaḫḫaṣ: “do not hit!”), the Vetitive (ē tamḫaṣ: “may you not
hit!”), the Positive Affirmative (lū amḫaṣ: “I did hit”) and the Negative Affirmative (lā amḫaṣu: “verily, I did
not hit”).” (Wasserman 2012:5)

(Huehnergard 2000:6)
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(parasu ‘to divide, separate’) (Buccellati 1997:72)

(Buccellati 1997:73)

References

Buccellati, G. (1997) “Akkadian” in R. Hetzron (ed.), The Semitic Languages, Routledge, London. pp. 69-99.
Huehnergard, J. (2000) A Grammar of Akkadian. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN.
Wasserman, N. (2012) Most Probably: Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake,
IN.