Oldest attested Semitic language (app. 3200 BC to around the turn from BC to AD), the language of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. After the second century BC Akkadian split into two dialects (Assyrian, Babylonian), written in cuneiform borrowed...

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Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Iraq, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians (also called Assyro-Babylonian).[1] The earliest attested Semitic language,...