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Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 203

Does anyone here know/studied etc Akkadian?

I'm looking for some resources to make a conlang out of, maybe a script as well. I want to do something different than a simple SVO or etc lang, and I don't know enough other linguistic interestings to do something completely different. (There was a conlang I was reading about - very complete, had a 50+ page dissertation etc Wink

that didn't even use a verb for 'to be.' I couldn't understand most of it, and the glossing was unlike anything I'd seen. Hopefully I'll be able to find it again - I lost the link when my computer crashed.)

Thanks!

Tolkien_Freak · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 872 Location: Everu

I know nothing about Akkadian, but it would be interesting to learn more.
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eldin raigmore · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 984 Location: SouthEast Michigan

I only know what I read in Campbell's "Concise Compendium of the World's Major Languages".
Akkadian has both genitive case and construct state; and it has SVO word-order dominant while most Semitic languages have verb-initial dominant, or at least as dominant as SVO.
And that's what I know. Not a lot, is it?
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Count Iblis · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 8

I've been trying to learn Akkadian through Introduction to Akkadian by Richard Caplice. By and large I like the book, but I find the section on the Construct State to be confusing. I'm having trouble with the verbs, but that has nothing to do with the presentation in the book. I also suggest going to Google Books and doing a search for Akkadian. There are several books that you can download (they're all old).

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 203

All right, thanks! Though Google Books sometimes doesn't have the full book, and to be honest, it's hard to read full length books via the computer - I prefer to be able to carry it around, read it wherever, etc.

Count Iblis · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 8