Old Assyrian

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Old Assyrian is an early dialect of the Akkadian language used in the ancient city-state of Assur and in Old Assyrian trade colonies during the early second millennium BCE.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Old Assyrian canonical 8
Old Assyrian period 6
Old Assyrian Akkadian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Akkadian dialect
ancient language variety
associatedWith Assur
linked to: Ashur

Kanesh
linked to: Kaneš

Old Assyrian trading network
attestedIn Kültepe tablet corpus
clay tablet archives
chronologicallyFollows Old Akkadian
linked to: Akkadian
chronologicallyPrecedes Middle Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian
closelyRelatedTo Old Babylonian
era Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian
hasCorpusSize several thousand known tablets
hasFeature distinct orthographic conventions compared to Babylonian Akkadian
distinct phonological developments within Akkadian
specialized commercial terminology
hasWritingDirection left-to-right in horizontal lines
languageBranch East Semitic
languageCodeStatus not assigned modern ISO 639-3 code as separate language
languageFamily Semitic languages
partOf Akkadian language
linked to: Akkadian

Assyrian language historical stages
region Upper Mesopotamia
northern Mesopotamia
linked to: Upper Mesopotamia
scriptOrigin adaptation of Old Babylonian cuneiform
scriptType syllabic cuneiform
standardFormOf Assyrian language in early second millennium BCE
subclassOf Akkadian
East Semitic language
timePeriod early second millennium BCE
timePeriodEnd circa 1700 BCE
timePeriodStart circa 2000 BCE
usedBy Assyrian merchants
inhabitants of Assur
usedFor administrative records
commercial correspondence
legal documents
usedIn Anatolia
Kültepe (ancient Kanesh)
linked to: Kültepe

Old Assyrian trade colonies
city-state of Assur
usedInDomain long-distance trade
private business archives
writingMaterial clay tablets
writingSystem cuneiform

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Akkadian hasDialect Old Assyrian
Assyria historicalPhase Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian
Kültepe culture Old Assyrian
Kültepe period Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian
Kültepe period Old Hittite period
linked to: Old Assyrian
Kültepe language Old Assyrian
Ashur associatedWith Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian
Old Assyrian era Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian developedFrom Old Assyrian
Old Assyrian commercial law language Old Assyrian Akkadian
linked to: Old Assyrian
Old Assyrian commercial law relatedTo Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian
Kaneš culture Old Assyrian
Kaneš language Old Assyrian
Middle Assyrian ancestor Old Assyrian
Amorite language attestedIn Old Assyrian period
linked to: Old Assyrian