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Learn Akkadian
Добавлен 16 дек 2022
Learn how to read Akkadian from original cuneiform texts!
Join me on Patreon for extra content including helpful grammar breakdowns and exercises to practice your Akkadian.
Join me on Patreon for extra content including helpful grammar breakdowns and exercises to practice your Akkadian.
Learn Akkadian Episode 14: Nominal Sentences and Independent Pronouns
In this Episode of Learn Akkadian I discuss Nominal Sentences and Independent Pronouns!
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Learn Akkadian Episode 13: Possessive Suffixes
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On this episode I explain possessive suffixes and try my best to pronounce the guttural h. Stick around for a new cuneiform challenge! Thanks for watching and huge shout out to everyone who is supporting Learn Akkadian on Patreon! www.patreon.com/user?u=86906453
Learn Akkadian Episode 12: Genitive Constructions
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On this video I explain Genitive Constructions which show a possessive relationship between nouns. Also I got a guy on fiver to animate the bust of Sargon of Akkad to speak so stay tuned! Thanks for all the support for the channel. Special thanks to everyone who has subscribed on Patreon! These donations are a huge help by allowing me to improve the videos and I am planning to invest in a new m...
Learn Akkadian Episode 11 The Š System and Law 127 of Hammurabi's code
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On this episode I talk about the Š system the last of our four main verbal systems. Stay tuned for a full breakdown of Law 127 of Hammurabi's Code! A huge thanks to everyone who has been supporting Learn Akkadian! patreon.com/user?u=86906453
Learn Akkadian Episode 10: The D System and Perfect T Assimilation
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On this episode I explain the basics of D system verbs. Stick around until the end when I explain perfect 't' assimilation (a process which affects all verbal systems). There was a slight translation error on the video previously so I am rereleasing the edited version. Thanks Biri for catching the mistake! Thanks for watching! www.patreon.com/user?u=86906453
Learn Akkadian Episode 9: N System Verbs
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Sorry for the delay on this video! Amraṣ (I was ill) but now I am back with the N System! In this Episode of LearnAkkadian, I talk about the N System, a verbal system which gives us a passive or ingressive meaning of the root. Thank you to everyone who has supported Learn Akkadian! Find more on my Patreon www.patreon.com/user?u=86906453
Hammurabi's Code Law 1
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Learn to translate the first law from Hammurabi's Code from the original cuneiform signs! Make sure to subscribe for detailed explanations of the grammar. If you are interested in trying to translating more laws check out ehammurabi.com/ Thanks for watching and huge shoutout to everyone who has supported LearnAkkadian on Patreon! www.patreon.com/user?u=86906453
Learn Akkadian Episode 8: The Dual Form
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One interesting thing about Akkadian is that in addition to the singular and plural forms there also exists the dual which is used to denote a pair of two things. In this video I go over the basics of the dual form. Stick around til the end to practice your cuneiform! Below are links to the Monumental Old Babylonian Sign list, and Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: www.patreon.com/posts/monumental-ol...
Learn Akkadian Episode 7: Adjectives and The Poor Man of Nippur
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In this video I talk about adjectives by exploring a Mesopotamian classic, The Poor Man of Nippur. Check out the movie version made by the University of Cambridge Archaeology Department here: ruclips.net/video/pxYoFlnJLoE/видео.html and UPenn text translated by Dr Greta van Buylaere here: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cams/gkab/P338355 Shoutout to my professor Dr George Heath-Whyte who stars in the fi...
Learn Akkadian Episode 6: The Rule of Vowel Elision
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In Akkadian, words were sometimes shortened through a process called vowel elision. In this video I explain just how this works. Stick around for an Akkadian Trivia Challenge at the end of the video!
Learn Akkadian Episode 5: Translating Nouns
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Learn Akkadian Episode 5: Translating Nouns
Learn Akkadian Episode 4: Assimilation
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Learn Akkadian Episode 4: Assimilation
Learn Akkadian Episode 3: The G System: The "Easiest" Verb System
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Learn Akkadian Episode 3: The G System: The "Easiest" Verb System
Learn Akkadian Episode 2: Verbs and the Dictionary Form
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Learn Akkadian Episode 2: Verbs and the Dictionary Form
Learn Akkadian Episode 1: Cuneiform 101: How to Read Cuneiform!
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Learn Akkadian Episode 1: Cuneiform 101: How to Read Cuneiform!
Learn Akkadian Episode 0: Cuneiform, Babylonian, and Hammurabi’s Code
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Learn Akkadian Episode 0: Cuneiform, Babylonian, and Hammurabi’s Code
God bless you
God bless you
Excellent tutorials! Thank you! Nevertheless, I believe it's better to use the term "phoneme" or "speech sounds" instead of "meaning" in regard to the sounds AS, INA, etc.
God bless you
Like if you are here still here in 2024 BC
Really enjoying your lectures.
Kind of looks like logic gates for circuits or physical decision trees 😂
It's great to see extinct scripts making a comeback in the 21st century.
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).
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.
How did we manage to learn so much about cuneiform and the language? And how accurate are the sounds? Maybe are approximations?
It’s meaning sallatum prayer
First Akkadian waiting from write to left is totally different in translation so I read it very clear
3:59 no, that'd be ludicrous. "She" comes from Old English hēo, from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). It's only a coincidence that the Akkadian pronoun sounded similarly.
house - kash = winter in turk languages, kashta - house in modern Bulgarian too. Why Bitum and not Kashtum :-) joking
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!
1:45 I've seen this referred to as the inchoative aspect, yours is the first video where I find the name "ingressive" for this. Is it only the Akkadian grammar that uses this term?
So, a virgin priestess
A small u..Š, like a v
how the hell did they figure out how something was pronounced?
Nice
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.
Murabbi
english: its this when this except for when its this then its this and this or this and... Akkadian: plug in the root words
Dear mr. Reese, Thanks for the effort. This lecture is too abstract. Maybe you could structure future videos to focus more on signs and combinations; Rather than this dry boring grammar.
Sumerian and Akkadian are AFRO-Asiatic. The Hebrew the Israeli Jews speak is AFRO-Asiatic, so Cuneiform is AFRO-Asiatic. Considering people of color created the first languages, writing systems and civilizations. It became necessary for people who lack melatonin to kill, rape, pillage, and steal this knowledge , including that of astronomy, math, medicine; AND TAKE IT FOR THEIR OWN. Then burn the books and libraries and ALL PROOF that Africa and dark skinned people had kingdoms predating recorded history. Even Kanji can call AFRO-Asiatic cuneiform “DADDY”. But it make sense since people traveled FROM Africa to Asia. The lighter your skin the more “Desendant” you become.
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
So the reason why Novozymes could read and write in the Old times - was simply because they made it hard
haha..this sounds sh, t. and ts is kike in mine Serbian language, we have those souns in our alphabet, cirilic..
Why didn't they simplify things? there's way too much involved in writing a simple letter.
Thank you for all your wonderful lessons! Lots of love from Israel xo
How do we know how those letters/words were pronounced? It is more like a guess than a fact... but maybe I am wrong.
I don't understand how those ancient people could invent such a complicated language?!?
Do you think it would be possible one day to revive the Akkadian language? I feel like it is a shame that so many cool languages are extinct
Wow!! This is awesome! Great introduction!
Rees, where are you on your Akkadian journey? Professor or grad student?
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.
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.
@@learnakkadian hi, thanks for that. Is Sumerian cuneiform the oldest known written language then?
Hello bro how r , i am from iraq - Babylon , how i can contact with you ?
Ancient language nerd here, and seeing this to learn how to read cuneiform absolutely blows my mind, lets bring back these dead languages 🙏
Hi Reese, thanks for these interesting and well explained videos! I have a question: Let’s assume as a native of the Latin script, to master the Cyrillic script for 80% takes about 3 days, and to master Arabic for 80% takes about 30 days. Could you estimate, how long will it take to master the Akkadian script for 80%?
There are many more signs since these represent syllables instead of letters. While an alphabet can make up a huge number of syllables with a relatively few component letters, a syllable based writing system requires a new sign for each individual syllable (although some syllables have multiple signs meaning the same thing, and some signs have multiple meanings). As a result, it would take much longer to memorise all the syllables required to read Akkadian compared to learning a letter based language like Latin.
What purpose for did you publish this video. Looked at it. Sorry waste of time.
Dear Rees, I would have some questions regarding the pronunciation of the Akkadian language. I noticed that you have a rather American/English accent, especially in the a and r sounds. How was the pronunciation actually like? Can we reconstruct that?
It is difficult to reconstruct since the language is so old but many scholars have looked to modern Semitic languages like Arabic to hypothesise how words should be pronounced. That said, it is very unlikely the Akkadians spoke with an American accent so some of my pronunciations are not correct.
I do not really understand what your intention with this "short" might be. For me it's useless.
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
You pronounced it worng. I dont know any semitic language with the /ae/ phoneme, that an english sound not akkadian
he's been having a very prominent General American accent throughout this whole series. To call him out only by episode 10 is, well, very weird
I love your videos! Please come back 😭😭😭😭
Strong verbs and weak verbs. 3 consonants verbs. It 's same as Arabic Grammer. Srq is the Arabic verb as well.
In amharic its isat
Can't wait for 5,000 years in the future. When a person on a streaming platform will use a constitution to teach English
They want us to learn cuneiform because of the reset.