ASSYRIAN

ASSYRIAN
   East Semitic dialect, a form of Akkadian that was spoken in Assyria and rendered in cuneiform writing. In accordance with the different historical periods, one distinguishes between Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian. The largest number of Assyrian texts excavated so far date from the ninth to the middle of the seventh centuries B.C. See also LANGUAGES.

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