Akkadian ( akkadû, ak-ka-du-u2; logogram: URIKI) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa and Babylonia) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement by Akkadian-influenced Old Aramaic among Mesopotamians by the 8th century BC. It is the earliest attested Semitic language. It used the cuneiform script, which was originally used to write the unrelated, and also extinct, Sumerian (which is a language isolate). Akkadian is named after the city of Akkad, a major centre of Mesopotamian civilization during the Akkadian Empire (c. 2334–2154 BC). The mutual influence between Sumerian and Akkadian had led scholars to describe the languages as a Sprachbund. Akkadian proper names were first attested in Sumerian texts from around the mid 3rd-millennium BC. From about the 25th or 24
Akkadian (akkadû, ak-ka-du-u2; logograma: URIKI) es una lengua semítica oriental extinta que se hablaba en la antigua Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa y Babilonia) desde el tercer milenio a.C. hasta su sustitución gradual por el aramaico antiguo influenciado por Akkadian entre los mesopotámicos por el siglo VIII a.C. Es la lengua semítica más temprana atestiguada. Utilizó el escrito cuneiforme, que fue utilizado originalmente para escribir el no relacionado, y también extinto, sumerio (que es un idioma aislado). Akkadian es nombrado después de la ciudad de Akkad, un importante centro de civilización mesopotámica durante el Imperio Akkadian (c.