Re: [TIED] Re: Dennis on Glen (was Hebrew and Arabic)

From: Marc Verhaegen
Message: 2594
Date: 2000-05-31

>> Krispijn etc. say first Akkadian names in Sumerian texts were found in
South Mesopotamia after 2400 BC Akkadian texts are known from Ebla=Syria &
whole Mesopotamia.

>Ebla in fact had Akkadian as a literary language. They used Cuneiform for
the earliest extant West Semitic texts. The first Akkadian names are
significantly before 2400 BCE.

You're correct. Sorry. I meant: Krispijn etc. say first Akkadian names in
Sumerian texts were found in South Mesopotamia; after 2400 BC Akkadian texts
are known from Ebla=Syria & whole Mesopotamia.

Marc Verhaegen
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