Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary

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A compendious dictionary of two official languages of the Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian and Standard Akkadian, and the first English-Akkadian dictionary ever published. This volume is very important for each and every Assyriologist, Semitist, and interested layman, it comprises about 13,000 Assyrian entries and about 23,000 English entries.

Based at the Corpus of Neo-Assyrian text database and relying at the glossaries to previous SAA volumes, the Helsinki Assyrian Dictionary is, unlike other “Assyrian” dictionaries, in fact a dictionary of Assyrian. It documents the language of the Neo-Assyrian period as reflected within the up to date documents. Along with Assyrian words and phrases, it is usually Babylonian words from letters to and from the Assyrian bureaucracy, words from royal inscriptions and other texts written in Standard Akkadian (the Assyro-Babylonian literary language), and lots of Aramaic words in common usage.


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