This guide is so helpful! Thank you! Now I can write a complaint to Ea-nasir about the copper he sold my ancestors maybe 4000 years ago.
@user-xl9rr4nt4z
26 күн бұрын
you have the same issue too?
@mikebibler6556
7 ай бұрын
The best Cuneiform 101 I've found. Had to learn Arabic 20 yrs ago. Now on to more fun and intellectual uses with Akkadian and Cuneiform.
@mravalik
2 ай бұрын
Ancient language nerd here, and seeing this to learn how to read cuneiform absolutely blows my mind, lets bring back these dead languages 🙏
@JGHFunRun
4 ай бұрын
I'm here because I need to warn my fellow akkadians about a many selling some very bad copper, but due to colonialism I only speak English
@falnica
3 ай бұрын
that was in sumeria, I'm afraid
@frauleinhohenzollern
Ай бұрын
Hilarious 🙄
@JGHFunRun
Ай бұрын
@@frauleinhohenzollern oh no how dare someone make a joke. What a horrible thing. No but seriously, why so rude?
@TheBelrick
Ай бұрын
@@JGHFunRun because use of the slur colonialism is anti european racism. Such users stance is very simple, its only bad when Europeans did it....
@TheDrumstickEmpire
Ай бұрын
@@TheBelricki hope you’re being sarcastic 💀
@11md
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great content, I'm an Iraqi from Babel and i really want to learn the Mesopotamian languages and you are helping me a lot with these great videos🙏🏼
@aliahmed-kv5nt
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. knowing Arabic as mother tung makes it easy for me to understand Akkadian as you explains it.
@shivmongoose3343
9 ай бұрын
Even the small amount of Arabic I learned in high school makes these lessons easier.
@yoni10014
9 ай бұрын
Arabic and Akkadian are both semitic languages, which makes it more intuitive to those who speak it
@DataBeingCollected
27 күн бұрын
I see you have a system, a foolproof system to get any Mesopotamian cuneiform knowledge for Life. The whiteboard really sells your ability to demonstrate your value. Very, very smooth stuff, very classy. I’m learning a lot from you right now, dude.
@KazuchijouNoDan
Жыл бұрын
I love it! I'll definitely follow along this series. Thank you a lot!
@shaobing_4172
Жыл бұрын
Very good introduction, it is very understandable and interesting. I'm looking forward to the next videos
@conniefoxx9813
4 ай бұрын
Wow. Came across by accident and decided to watch. You explain it so well, and I'm amazed you have memorized all this. It is fascinating.
@gaapgoetia8953
6 ай бұрын
Excellent tutorial. I've been wanting to make proper Cuneiform tablets, and this is invaluable information on how to correctly read and write/indent
@learnakkadian
6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@gaapgoetia8953
6 ай бұрын
@@learnakkadian My favorite writing system, just beautiful to look at. Honestly both surprised and glad to find such a concise series. Thanks!
@alejandrocolete3856
9 күн бұрын
Very thankful for this lesson! Great job! I love it!!
@moroccandeepweb5880
8 ай бұрын
لإخواني الناطقين بالعربية: لفظ بِيتُم يقابله في العربية بَيتٌ، والميم التي في آخره تقابل التنوين الذي عندنا في العربية (بَيْتُن) وهي نونٌ تثبُت لفظًا لا خطّا، وقد نرمز لها بتَكرار حركة نهاية الاسم، وتفيد أن الاسم نكرة. وكما يختفي التنوين عند إضافة الاسم (بيتُ رجلٍ) فإن الميم تختفي أيضا في حال الإضافة في اللغة الأكدية (بِيت أَوِيلِم)، والكسرة الظاهرة على اللام هي علامة جر أَوِيل لأنه مضاف إليه. وقد نسمي إضافة الميم في الأكدية تَمْيِيمًا قياسًا على التنوين. والله تعالى أعلم.
@zeroakk4339
3 ай бұрын
لا تخلط ولا تبث للعربية بللغه الاكادية فهي بعيدة عنها. اقرب لها ارامية والعبرية والشريانية بكثير
@moroccandeepweb5880
3 ай бұрын
@@zeroakk4339 تفضل بالتعليق بكلام علمي يضيف إلى ما قيل أو يرده، وتعلم الكتابة بالعربية أولا قبل التعليق
@zeroakk4339
3 ай бұрын
@@moroccandeepweb5880 اكتب بللغه الي اريدها. ومحاولتي لكتابة بلعربية لتتفهم:/ اذهب واطلع عن علم للغويات وخصوصا للغات الشرق الاوسط وتفهم قبل ان تاتي بكلمة وتحاول تربطها بللغه الاكادية /اضافة ان للغات بلاد الرافدين هي للغه مقطعية وليس ابجدية. اما للغات التي يطلق عليها السامية فهي تبداء بللغه ارامية والتي انبثقت منها للهجات المعروفة (السريانية والعبرية والعربية / كلهم يعودو للغه الام آرامية: وهي تتكون من حروف ابجدية. وليس مثل للغه الاكادية التي تتكون من مقاطع وتكتب بلخط المسماري / اما محاول تشابه ف هذا تطور بين للغات واختلاط الشعوب يولد ترابط للكلمات والمطلحات ؛مثل اليوم يوجد بللغه الانجليزية عدد هائل من الكلمات ذات الاصل لاتيني. ف افهم علم للغات وادوية قبل انت تكتب بهذا نظره سطحية.
@ryanshaw4250
11 ай бұрын
I recently went to the British museum in London and the cuneiform was the most exciting section for me. Hearing you teach her to read and all of that makes me realize how much of the other ancient languages that I've learned have a lot of similarities. I noticed a correlation between a lot of the native American languages especially north of Mexico fit into the Japanese alphabet pretty much perfectly but to be fair, so does cuneiform. It's not perfect but it's like 90 something percent the same way that you would read Japanese which is a very interesting set of letters like ra or mu or bi
@TheBelrick
Ай бұрын
In the beginning their was the survivors of the deluge. Ayrans. They came down from the Turkish mountains and re seeded civilization 12k years ago.
@TheDrumstickEmpire
Ай бұрын
@@TheBelricktf u on about
@AtreidesIV
Жыл бұрын
This is lovely ! I always wanted to invest myself more in bronze-age cultures and mesopotamian empires.
@SuspiciousFish538
Жыл бұрын
This series is so exciting and informative. I can’t wait to learn more!
@DoodlesHearts
Жыл бұрын
My brain feels like it's been working hard to understand this, but I've definitely gotten everything that you have said on this video! This is really opening my eyes to the complexity of the evolution of language, never mind JUST written language is. Goshhh, this is amazing, thank you SO much for this! :D
@avestictradition
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff, Very well explained, will definitely follow your Akkadian lessons. Thanks
@FernandoVinny
Жыл бұрын
So freaking difficult
@alvarezzzz_0927T
8 ай бұрын
Light work
@eric-fs5sd
Ай бұрын
@@frannybellotti4790Why are you being difficult
@rainbs2nd
Жыл бұрын
Loved the It's always sunny intro hahah! Great video
@amr8457
Жыл бұрын
Thank you VERY much for making this video! I wish there was someplace I could learn Sumerian cuneiform. I would PAY to learn. I did find a you tube channel that taught Sumerian numerology. I found that VERY easy to learn. Counting and adding, etc. But the language.. Wow! I need basics. Alphabet first, then compounding. Just like we were in kindergarten again.
@sweetykitty4427
Жыл бұрын
the youtube channel "digital hammurabi" has sumerian on it!
@grolash6219
Жыл бұрын
Very good video! I noticed you had less problems with your green screen, wich is good because it was distracting. It would be interesting, when you use a sumerogram, to have the corresponding sumerian pronunciation too!
@LearnRunes
Ай бұрын
It's great to see extinct scripts making a comeback in the 21st century.
@wordfacts
5 ай бұрын
Great explanation. It is a good skill to explain the basic use of the system without getting bogged down in the form of word making or clay stylus as I've seen
@learnakkadian
5 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@riverstone100
9 ай бұрын
Very helpful lesson! Thank you so much for shedding light on the mystery of Cuneiform writing.
@learnakkadian
9 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@garrettalline7953
Жыл бұрын
Love this channel! Besides reading the tablets, and this being one of the coolest things ever done, the only other practical thing I think this could be used for is writing my olographic will in Akkadian just so the judge has to call an Assyriologist to put my heirs in possession 😂😂
@farmerguy7406
Жыл бұрын
You are doing God's work, good sir!
@juliastrzyga2274
Жыл бұрын
Ha! I guessed the word before you started a transliteration. I really like your lessons! Great job! :)
@dickon728
Жыл бұрын
Me too, once I figured out that the mu wasn't a ri. I'm more used to later scripts.
@iammaxhammer
18 күн бұрын
*Make Akkadian Great Again!*
@hweiktomeyto
9 ай бұрын
Its not an alphabet. Its a logosyllabary.
@trevorhazell5778
Жыл бұрын
The double consonant thing being inferred is kind of like the shadda doubling the consonant in Arabic
@Alice-gf4dd
Жыл бұрын
Please, continue! You are doing the Lord’s work. ❤
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Working on a new video now hopefully will be able to post soon.
@TheDrumstickEmpire
Ай бұрын
Excellent introduction, my only comment would be on your pronunciation, but pronunciation is always the hardest thing to nail down. Perhaps beside semantic nuances. Very good!
@Urdu_with_paro
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for teaching us this amazing language 😭🙏😍
@paaabl0.
Ай бұрын
Wow!! This is awesome! Great introduction!
@BarBokhva
2 ай бұрын
As someone who can speak Hebrew and a bit of Arabic this makes since in how it's constructed. In Hebrew there is the word בית(Bāīt)=house/home, and in Arabic there is بيت(Bēyt)=house/home, Bītum is very similar. but you can tell that's it's from a slightly different regional dialect of Semitic.
@malpercio123
9 ай бұрын
This is so incredibly valuable. Thank you so much
@bubek8u
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Akkadian is very interesting, i needed video liike this, greetings from Poland!
@l.t.7787
Жыл бұрын
Very impressive effort that you've put into this series, much appreciated! May I point out that in 10:50 when you give the cuneiform for bītum, it can never be written bi-it-um (the /t/ ending in /it/ cannot be the consonant for the next syllable) but rather bi-i-tum or bi-tum or bi-it-tum (rarely) or most often, É :)
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for pointing this out! For anyone else curious why this is true I’m attaching an excerpt from Huehnergard’s grammar explaining the 3 essential rules of syllabification: “ (A) Every syllable has one, and only one, vowel. (b) With two exceptions, no syllable may begin with a vowel. The exceptions are: the beginning of a word; the second of two succes-sive vowels. (c) No syllable may begin or end with two consonants” -Akkadian Grammar pg 3
@neilyang3408
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the cuneiform text reads "Ha-am-mu-ra-bi". It's written in the Babylonian Monumental script! The one on top reads "a-na ilim" (to the god)
@thesqueedler
Жыл бұрын
It seems like in the word bītum, this violates a golden rule of normalization by effectively doubling the vowel. Even though it’s not written as double, it’s doubled in length. Is the normalization for writing or pronunciation or both and is the vowel actually ever doubled? Second question, what in your view are a couple of the most important/controversial existing interpretations of Akkadian, I mean where the incorrect reading would have the most profound impact on our understanding of that history, or even on how people at the time responded? There are similar issues in Sanskrit and a particularly famous one that caused a rift in early Buddhism.
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
Great questions! The combining of vowels in normalization affects the syllabification of the word where as long vowels only affect the way in which the vowel is pronounced (this does not change the syllable in which the vowel is pronounced). I will talk more about important differences in translations later in the series so please stay tuned.
@RobespierreThePoof
4 ай бұрын
Art historian here .. but a modernist! I often teach the 101 survey so i thought i would at learn learn the basics of the cubeiform writing system. I understand Akkadian is painfully difficult. Edit: and just a couple minutes in, I see why it's often said that cuneiform is a messy writing system. The characters do not line up clearly with an individual phoneme?! We might as well be learning English spelling! 🤙
@creampug701
Ай бұрын
God bless you
@louesorg
4 ай бұрын
Loving it so far! :O
@eleanorerosanova7538
6 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Thank you
@alvarezzzz_0927T
8 ай бұрын
Ngl this is light work🔥🔥
@CheLanguages
Жыл бұрын
How come the first a in Hammurabi is not written with a macron but the first i in Bitum is? Also Bitum is similar to the word we use in Hebrew, Bayit.
@dickon728
Жыл бұрын
The first a (ah) in Hammurabi is a short a sound like the u in cut. If it had a macron on it it would be a long a sound. The i in bītum has a macron on it to indicate that it is a long ee sound as the ee in see.
@zimriel
Ай бұрын
It's Semitic. The root of bitum is BYT, just like in Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew. So in Akkadian the middle consonant in the root was just elided into a long vowel. Some root like SPR or KTB (for writing) would probably not have long vowels (I don't know Akkadian).
@SionSheva5756
Жыл бұрын
cHammu - rapi : “the kinsman of the Rephaim (Rephaite the healer)” חַמּוּרָפִּי רְפָאִים Rephaim
@ayeshakhan2615
Жыл бұрын
This is great!
@briefhistorybites
Жыл бұрын
I love it Thank you so much 😏🙏👌✍
@ארזהלפרן
Жыл бұрын
Nice. Thanks
@azharAD
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explaination
@EnginAtik
Ай бұрын
If “ra” is duplicated one ends up with ha-am-mu-ra-ra-bi” which can also be interpreted as “hammur arabi “ which in turn can be translated as “Arabic dough” or “Arabic extraction.” That is the guy was an Arab.
@FEliXThisSIDE
Жыл бұрын
Thankyou sir
@leftofright
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for this intro
@mattorsie4421
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for a great introduction! What would you recommend as reference if I wanted to tell the difference between Akkadian and the Babylonian/Assyrian dialects of cuneiform? I'd like to get to the point of at least looking at a script and saying "This is most likely written by the .....". Thanks in advance.
@learnakkadian
7 ай бұрын
Hey Matt I would recommend checking out R. Labat’s manuel d’epigraphie akkadienne
@learnakkadian
7 ай бұрын
The on catch is that it’s in french, but it is by far the resource and since all you need is the Akkadian transliteration and the sign it won’t be a problem. Hope this helps!
@mattorsie4421
7 ай бұрын
@@learnakkadian Thanks, I'm still waiting for the book to arrive. I do have a small 3x2 tablet and was wondering if you could point in the right direction as to whether it's Akkadian or perhaps a Babylonian/Assyrian dialect? It was label as Sumerian c.a 3000BC but based on my limited knowledge it doesn't seem to be Sumerian.
@alantischler3547
Ай бұрын
Rees, where are you on your Akkadian journey? Professor or grad student?
@marmieRH
4 ай бұрын
Wow I just subscribed from Québec 😊 I hope you are helping Dr irving finkel with his 30,000 tablets? 😊 I wish I could ❤
@DWS2023-uy3yx
8 күн бұрын
How did they translate these symbols into English letters? Through phonemes? Through meanings? Both?
@AlyssaLopez-n1c
8 ай бұрын
How do we decipher dead languages to such an extent that we could propose sounds? I can understand studying and finding patterns for grammar, but then where do we find the vacabularly and the sounds? Thats so wild to me. Great video, im subscribing 💐
@zimriel
Ай бұрын
Akkadian has the whole Semitic family as a sibling, so its consonant and vowel inventory could be reconstructed. Also poetry survives to fine-tune its long and short vowels.
@meemstar2333
10 ай бұрын
bitum sounds like it's cognate with arabic beit, also meaning house
@moroccandeepweb5880
8 ай бұрын
It is in fact a cognate with Arabic بيت.
@stellank450
6 ай бұрын
Very interesting.Thank you! Greetings from Italy. PS Where the hell are you? :)
@TheBelrick
Ай бұрын
Our history is subverted. But the pieces are assembling. We have the great deluge from which arose the likes of Sumer with their triangle based writing system We also have the more advanced Atlantean civilization destroyed more recently with their Circle based Runic system (you can see the relationship with cuneiform, draw a circle, divide into 8 wedges, those lines serve as the basis for all the characters (and of course the infamous broken sun wheel symbol found globally, the 'swastika'). ᛚ ᛩ etc But note that these modern fonts are wrong. The true runes had to fit within a circle, outer rune lines were therefor curved. (super impose these two symbols to see what i mean ⨁ and ⨂) This was used by the survivors such as Freya, Fin, Lydia. And of course the Canaanites -> Phoenicians -> Venetians line that rules today.
@gaiaiulia
5 ай бұрын
And I thought the Devanagari script was difficult! Lol!
@ProudMesopotamianGirl
Жыл бұрын
Omg this is difficult but I'm not giving up 😭
@knockoutnorko7500
3 ай бұрын
Real bloody thankful the bi/pi an’ the am cune havnae changed all the much throughout them centuries otherwise I wouldnae recognise goo ol’ Hammurapi’s name fer sure 😄 (Reason being that I’m more used tae the older variant)
@rodrigodiaz5003
3 ай бұрын
Thank you 😮
@virgiliustancu9293
Ай бұрын
How do we know how those letters/words were pronounced? It is more like a guess than a fact... but maybe I am wrong.
@creamrisesup
5 ай бұрын
The sounds have a striking resemblance with the Amharic language.
@learnakkadian
5 ай бұрын
Interesting where is the Amharic language from?
@creamrisesup
5 ай бұрын
@@learnakkadian it's the national language of Ethiopia.
@msladebeatz
4 ай бұрын
Wait! What? What was the translation of the first word you had written out?
@calonarang7378
7 күн бұрын
Damn this is hard. I'm staying with Ruinic.(Ruins).
@BafrinNajib
5 ай бұрын
Mar means snake in kurdish....impressive how similer to all the sounds in kurdish!
@zimriel
Ай бұрын
I think Kurdish is more related to Old Persian, first written down by Darius. Closer to home there's "Mar" in Syriac which means "saint" or "lord".
@ZFlyingVLover
8 ай бұрын
How do they know what sounds akkadian had and didn't have?!
@learnakkadian
8 ай бұрын
A lot of it is based off of more modern Near Eastern Languages
@ValidatingUsername
Ай бұрын
Kind of looks like logic gates for circuits or physical decision trees 😂
@AlexKS1992
Жыл бұрын
I bet Sumerian is even more challenging.
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
I think it definitely is. For anyone with a background in a semitic language Akkadian shouldn't be too hard to pick up.
@H2Dwoat
Ай бұрын
Hi, which came first cuneiform or written Sumerian? From the context of the video I would take it as Sumerian but I have heard that cuneiform was the first written form of a language.
@learnakkadian
Ай бұрын
Great question! Sumerian came before Akkadian but both actually use cuneiform. A useful way to think of this relationship is by thinking of Sumerian as Latin and Akkadian as English. Both use script similar to the modern alphabet but the words and grammar are different. The term cuneiform indicates that the writing is wedge shaped. There are many completely different languages which used the same general wedge shaped script. These languages borrow some cuneiform signs from each other but generally have different grammars, signs, and words.
@H2Dwoat
Ай бұрын
@@learnakkadian hi, thanks for that. Is Sumerian cuneiform the oldest known written language then?
@srg25008
9 ай бұрын
I’m curious. In Berber you say išar/ishar for he steals. Is this a coincidence?
@renatodavid3049
4 ай бұрын
Well, both languages are from the same family language tree called 'afroasiatic'
@yoyofun1
9 ай бұрын
So, the macron “i” makes a sound similar to the English word “it” rather than the more drawn out sounding “ee” sound like the “bi” in your transliteration? Making the word bitum sound like “bit-um” rather than “beet-um”?
@learnakkadian
9 ай бұрын
The macron makes the vowel sound longer so the sounds you have just described would be reversed. Bī gives a bee sound and bi would give a short i sound like pit.
@virgiliustancu9293
Ай бұрын
I don't understand how those ancient people could invent such a complicated language?!?
@HassanHabasha
Ай бұрын
Hello bro how r , i am from iraq - Babylon , how i can contact with you ?
@martinhachler1733
Жыл бұрын
Isn't cuneiform written from right to left?
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
Akkadian is written predominantly left to right or from top to bottom if the inscription is oriented vertically.
@cynthiamariebrewer7837
4 ай бұрын
Hello and thank you❤ my best interpretation I think it means is an idea posed by symbals rather than by letters... The first: pi = a ⭕ circle which is the symbol for God, Omicron, all, sun, eternal, universe, and the logos, "the". The second being: am, is, be and equals, image and likeness, seed, seedling. The third: mu, the Cradle of civilization of this era on Earth, Eden, Genesis, seed, seedlings in the plantation. The fourth: Ra, god, Sun God, source, energy, force field, progenitor, Ray. The fifth: bi, two, ka, spirit, soul,.... Meaning I Am a child of God, made and sustained by the Sun, and seedling from the Tree/vine of Ra, a Divine being of Source..... How does that grab you? Am I anywhere close? I've never tried this before so I may have just really embarrassed myself, but not as badly if I didn't try... My question would be how did you decide for the symbols to mean the letters that you've chosen????
@ambientzoo6764
6 ай бұрын
An eye for an eye?
@MrSamialbeik
Ай бұрын
So the reason why Novozymes could read and write in the Old times - was simply because they made it hard
@jespermynchau5580
7 ай бұрын
Its not pronounced ham, like Hamburg. Its pronounced ham, like "harm" Ham'murabi.
@handsupbud
Ай бұрын
Why didn't they simplify things? there's way too much involved in writing a simple letter.
@CaptHandsome42
Жыл бұрын
cut that cut that cut that
@JasminNorasaki
11 ай бұрын
😂 they would use the back of throat when speaking making a drinking chugging g sound
@poupoupidoup.pictures1264
Жыл бұрын
Hello. Could you please help me in how to say / write : "Thank you, teacher" in Akkadian / Sumerian, plz?
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
I searched for this phrase for a while and there is no translation that captures what you want. The Babylonians did not have a word for teacher like we do but would have used a word that in English would be closer to master (Mulammidu). Bunna loosely translates to “thank to” but is more of an attributive word.
@poupoupidoup.pictures1264
Жыл бұрын
@@learnakkadian thank you a million. I have been searching myself for possible equivalents (also in Sumerian, Urartian) since it is obvious we would not have those words in exact same senses we have them in today's English. I was thinking that for "thank you" something like this would go: "In the name of God Khaldi". Again thank you for your kind reply
@hackneyedstudios4699
Жыл бұрын
is there any difference between akkadian cuneiform script, and that of other cultures/time periods? i would have assumed, for example, that neoassyrian writings would have a very different dialect (at least, if not an altered alphabet) to that of the akkadians but it seems as if theyre entirely the same, even though the two civilizations have an entire bronze age collapse between them.
@learnakkadian
Жыл бұрын
There are big differences in language and orthography between the different cultures which used cuneiform. In the case of the Babylonians and Assyrians, both used the Akkadian language although each had their own specific dialect. Additionally, the Assyrians and Babylonian used different sign forms. These sign forms as well as some aspects of grammar changed over time. For example, Old Babylonian cuneiform used completely different signs from Neo-Babylonian cuneiform. Also cuneiform signs sometimes varied based off context with monumental Old Babylonian signs used on royal inscriptions and Hammurabi's Code while personal documents used cursive Old Babylonian signs. Some cultures like the Hittites or Elamites also used cuneiform with completely different sign forms and languages.
@hackneyedstudios4699
Жыл бұрын
@@learnakkadian can you see a more dramatic shift in cuneiform signs/dialects before and after the bronze age collapse? my understanding is that major centres like babylon survived through the period (whilst settlements like hattusa were largely abandoned); and if thats the case, was there some sort of ‘re-evolution’ and/or ‘re-transmission’ of cuneiform scripts. for instance, maybe there was a broader diversity in dialects etc pre-BAC, and then afterwards perhaps only babylonian cuneiform script was produced with other scripts dying out, before they re-evolved in line with the reemergence of major civilizations - like the neo-assyrians, urartu etc. - which are more closely derived from the babylonian script (in this case). i find this area of history (both the overall study of language, as well as early Mesopotamian civilisation and its developments toward literature) really interesting. i would love to be able to read texts like the epic of gilgamesh and the hymn to inana in their original cuneiform, because i understand that actually understanding the language’s intricacies can open up so much more meaning than is offered by a monocular translation. i very much doubt that i will be able to casually learn cuneiform though, i thought it was a much more simple language (especially since some translated texts ive read seemed to indicate that cuneiform scripts didnt even differentiate tense or anything).
@AlyssaLopez-n1c
8 ай бұрын
@learnakkadian so is it kind of like different european languages have Roman letter alphabets?
@darwinserillano4632
10 ай бұрын
wild guess: Hammurabi
@DevinDTV
Ай бұрын
how the hell did they figure out how something was pronounced?
@indieWellie
17 күн бұрын
that writing system was used for centuries, and in many many different languages. later surviving tablets were in languages that were already understood.
@justadog8248
9 ай бұрын
I've never learned from a ghost before.
@jonpaul3868
7 ай бұрын
😂
@learnakkadian
7 ай бұрын
👻
@petkofenersky1644
Ай бұрын
house - kash = winter in turk languages, kashta - house in modern Bulgarian too. Why Bitum and not Kashtum :-) joking
@FernandoVinny
8 ай бұрын
4:58 pí reads like p ou like π?
@learnakkadian
8 ай бұрын
The accent mark tells you about the cuneiform sign only. It doesn’t affect the sound at all. Like pi
@SystemsMedicine
Ай бұрын
Ummmm… I’ve got to be honest here…. I simply cannot believe that extraordinarily complex symbol could possibly just be an ‘it’ sound (and a few similar sounds). [Languages, especially ancient ones, simply aren’t this ridiculous. Linguists must have missed something here. Even if this complex symbol were an ‘it’ sound, there must be something else going on here (such as some kind of religious honorific, or an analog to a kanji).
@kengillett3042
Ай бұрын
Murabbi
@tellllllksi
11 ай бұрын
🇮🇷❤️
@user-xw6nu9ib1m
Ай бұрын
To say “learn Akkadian” is not incorrect but misleading for many reasons. One of which Sumerian would be more precise from an origin/chronological conception. Cuneiform by many scholars would be considered “more” Sumerian than Akkadian if based on time
@cannawithkendall1872
2 ай бұрын
They want us to learn cuneiform because of the reset.
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