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Akkadian language

Spoken language
Akkadian is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and Babylonians from the 8th century BC. It is the earliest... Wikipedia
Region: Asia
Dialects: : Old Akkadian; Assyrian; Babylonian; Canaano-Akkadian;
Era: c. 2500–500 BC; academic or liturgical use until AD 100
Official language in: Initially Akkad (central Mesopotamia); lingua franca of the Middle East and Egypt in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages