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Introduction to Akkadian offers a twelve-lesson course in the essentials of Akkadian grammar. The lessons feature concise explanations of Akkadian grammar, as well as exercises in reading, transliteration and translation. These introduce the student to common vocabulary and basic cuneiform signs. In addition, Introduction includes appendices dealing with Akkadian phonetics and metrology, indices,...

(without such a complement) is usually to be read DINGIR = ilum ‘god’; AN-ú (with -ú indicating a final long vowel) is to be read as AN = šamû ‘sky’. Grammatical information is given by the writings É-tum (bītum) ‘house’ (nom.) but É-tim (bītim) (gen.). c. Alphabetic representation of Akkadian signs. (1) We have seen that the phonetic (syllabic) values of a sign can be represented in alphabetic script: thus AN has the values /an/ and /il/. It is characteristic of the cuneiform writing
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