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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion introduction/00_01_akkadian_semitic_language.ipynb
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"GoA xxi-xxiii.\n",
"```\n",
"\n",
"Akkadian is the oldest known Semitic language, and after Sumerian it is the second oldest language in the Ancient Near East. It belongs to the East Semitic branch together with Eblaite. By contrast, the West Semitic brach has three main subgroups: Central Semitic, South Arabian and Ehtiopian, in which, for example, modern Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew are located.\n",
"Akkadian is the oldest known Semitic language. It belongs to the East Semitic branch together with Eblaite. By contrast, the West Semitic brach has three main subgroups: Central Semitic, South Arabian and Ehtiopian, in which, for example, modern Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew are located.\n",
"\n",
"```{figure} ../images/introduction_fig_01_genetic_classification_semitic_languages.png\n",
"---\n",
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"The Akkadian language has three main dialects: Old Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian and a scholarly dialect known as **Standard Babylonian**. The conventional periodisation for the Akkadian dilaects is as follows (Hasselbach-Andee {cite:year}`hasselbach-andee_classification_2021`, 137):\n",
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"| Period | Old Akkdian | Babylonian | Assyrian |\n",
"| Period | Old Akkadian | Babylonian | Assyrian |\n",
"| -------- | -------- | -------- |-------- |\n",
"| ca. 2600-2112 BCE | Old Akkadian | | |\n",
"|2112 – ca. 2000 BCE | | Early Babylonian |\n",
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" ````{admonition} Good-to-Know\n",
" :class: tip\n",
" Instead of the subscripts numbers ₂ and ₃ you will find in the litearture also transliteration of signs with **grave accent** and **acute accent**, for example á = a₂, à = 3 or šá = ša₂, šà = ša₃. Before the PCs scholars wrote on the type machine, in which is not possible to write subscripts, so they used accents. For the other number for example a₄ or ša₆ they had to write them by hand once the manuscript was ready.\n",
" Instead of the subscripts numbers ₂ and ₃ you will find in the litearture also transliteration of signs with **grave accent** and **acute accent**, for example - á = a₂, \n",
" - à = a₃, \n",
" - šá = ša₂\n",
" - šà = ša₃\n",
" Before the PCs scholars wrote on the type machine, in which is not possible to write subscripts, so they used accents. For the other number for example a₄ or ša₆ they had to write them by hand once the manuscript was ready.\n",
" ````\n",
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"- **Determinative**: It represents a semantic field and is placed before or after a logogram. In printed transliterations it is designated with superscript, but in the digital transliteration it appears in curly brackets.\n",
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