CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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Question
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The babylonian’s system of writing
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The babylonian’s language
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Assyrian and Babylonian are members of the Semitic language family, like Arabic and Hebrew. Because Babylonian and Assyrian are so similar – at least in writing – they are often regarded as varieties of a single language, today known as Akkadian.
Detailed explanation-2: -Akkadian language, also spelled Accadian, also called Assyro-Babylonian, extinct Semitic language of the Northern Peripheral group, spoken in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium bce.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term akkadűm “Akkadian” was used to refer to the East Semitic of south Mesopotamia, i.e. Babylonian, often in specific contrast to Sumerian, Assyrian or Aramaic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Akkad, ancient region in what is now central Iraq. Akkad was the northern (or northwestern) division of ancient Babylonia.