The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the end of the first millennium B.C., cuneiform continued to be used by temple scribes and astrologers. Greek scholars are known ...

Now considered extinct, Akkadian is one of the earliest known Semitic languages spoken and written from the third millennium B.C. until the first century A.D. The language is related to Arabic and ...