Middle Assyrian
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Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Middle Assyrian canonical | 3 |
| Middle Assyrian period | 2 |
| Middle Assyrian Empire | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Akkadian dialect
ⓘ
historical language variety ⓘ |
| ancestor | Old Assyrian ⓘ |
| approximateEndDate | c. 1000 BCE ⓘ |
| approximateStartDate | c. 1400 BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWithState | Middle Assyrian Empire ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
administrative texts
ⓘ
economic documents ⓘ legal texts ⓘ literary texts ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| descendant |
Neo-Assyrian
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo‑Assyrian
|
| differsFrom | Middle Babylonian in orthography and some phonology ⓘ |
| evidenceFrom |
archives at Assur
ⓘ
Library of Ashurbanipal ⓘ
surface form:
archives at Nineveh
archives at Tell Fekheriye ⓘ |
| extinctBy | first millennium BCE ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
case system
ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ verb conjugation with prefixes and suffixes ⓘ |
| influenced | Neo‑Assyrian orthography ⓘ |
| languageCodeStatus | not used as modern ISO 639 code ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Semitic languages ⓘ |
| legalCorpus | Middle Assyrian Laws ⓘ |
| partOf | Assyrian language ⓘ |
| phonologicalDevelopmentFrom | Old Assyrian ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| reconstructedBy | Assyriologists ⓘ |
| region |
Upper Mesopotamia
ⓘ
Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form:
northern Mesopotamia
|
| scriptType | logo‑syllabic script ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith |
Akkadian
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian dialects of Akkadian
|
| standardizedIn |
Neo-Assyrian royal administration
ⓘ
surface form:
royal chancery of Assyria
|
| studiedInField |
Assyriology
ⓘ
Semitic linguistics ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Akkadian
ⓘ
surface form:
Akkadian language
|
| subfamily |
East Semitic
ⓘ
surface form:
East Semitic languages
|
| usedBy | Assyrian scribes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
diplomatic correspondence
ⓘ
imperial administration ⓘ law codes ⓘ religious texts ⓘ scribal training ⓘ |
| usedIn | Assyria ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | late second millennium BCE ⓘ |
| writingMaterial | clay tablets ⓘ |
| writingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Middle Assyrian period
this entity surface form:
Middle Assyrian period
this entity surface form:
Middle Assyrian Empire