anyone know Akkadian?

[cmacq]

Do you use Akkadian to mean the language proper, or the East Semitic language group?

[Ibrahim]

Do you use Akkadian to mean the language proper, or the East Semitic language group?

the language proper (bear in mind that there were several dialects-all mutually intelligeble. in this case I need new babylonian)

[cmacq]

Strange, I thought Neo-Babylonian was a separate late East Semitic language as opposed to Old-Babylonian; an Eblaitic-Amoritic or West Semitic language?

[Ibrahim]

I know, I understand the confusion. here is how it works:

Akkadian starts out as old akkadian (c.3000-2000BC). it branches off into 2 main lines: old Assyrian, and old babylonian. the former is the more conservative of the 2. in any case both transition to middle assyrian & babylonian, then finally neo Assyrian and babylonian. then there is standard babylonian, which is a lot like middle Assyrian or babylonian, then mari, nuzi, and Boghaskoy dialect (latter was a trade language used by hittites). lets not forget Al-amarna too. all through that time, to my understanding, both maor dialects remained intelligeble throughout the 2 millenia they were poken (last record is around the time of christ-not sure).

anyways, as I said, I need someone who is more experienced with Akkadian than myself, in order to parse several verbs, whom the dictionary neglected to mention the class of. otherwise, I'm cool with the lishanu akkaditu..