How to pronounce “akkad” in English

what people do when they learn Akkadian, is they learn the Akkadian word and they learn the English translation, right? You have, "To divide."

But anybody who can learn Akkadian can understand what this is.

we know a little bit more about Akkadian than we do about Sumerian there's a lot about Sumerian we don't know like how

different kinds. And in Akkadian, it says, for example, "If a lizard runs across the breakfast table, the queen will die." So if you translate the Akkadian this way,

You do have to be able to read Akkadian to know what it says.

- Absolutely. So this means that not expressible in Akkadian grammar are these modal verbs. ...Could, might, should, ought. They can't be expressed

was the word for river, which is Naharu in Akkadian and نحر in Arabic and Aramaic.

It was by, God rest his soul, Moustapha Akkad, who was very well known for having produced

He's an expert on cuneiform script and more generally, on ancient languages like Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian.

But not only that. See, we don't have to decipher anymore. We can read Akkadian or Babylonian, Sumerian pretty well fluently. That's not a

- We are, except that when you went to scribal school, you had to learn Sumerian and Akkadian, the languages properly, and all the

proverb, the meaning is gonna be a little bit different from in their letter. And, you know, so people really, really understand Akkadian, they really do. But this thing about the modal