Middle Assyrian

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Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Akkadian dialect
historical language variety
ancestor Old Assyrian
approximateEndDate c. 1000 BCE
approximateStartDate c. 1400 BCE
associatedWithState Middle Assyrian Empire
attestedIn administrative texts
economic documents
legal texts
literary texts
royal inscriptions
descendant Neo‑Assyrian
linked to: Neo-Assyrian
differsFrom Middle Babylonian in orthography and some phonology
evidenceFrom archives at Assur
archives at Nineveh
archives at Tell Fekheriye
extinctBy first millennium BCE
extinctionStatus extinct
hasFeature case system
grammatical gender
verb conjugation with prefixes and suffixes
influenced Neo‑Assyrian orthography
languageCodeStatus not used as modern ISO 639 code
languageFamily Semitic languages
legalCorpus Middle Assyrian Laws
partOf Assyrian language
phonologicalDevelopmentFrom Old Assyrian
primaryWordOrder SOV
reconstructedBy Assyriologists
region Upper Mesopotamia
northern Mesopotamia
linked to: Upper Mesopotamia
scriptType logo‑syllabic script
sharesFeatureWith Babylonian dialects of Akkadian
linked to: Akkadian
standardizedIn royal chancery of Assyria
studiedInField Assyriology
Semitic linguistics
subdivisionOf Akkadian language
linked to: Akkadian
subfamily East Semitic languages
linked to: East Semitic
usedBy Assyrian scribes
usedFor diplomatic correspondence
imperial administration
law codes
religious texts
scribal training
usedIn Assyria
usedInPeriod late second millennium BCE
writingMaterial clay tablets
writingSystem cuneiform

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Akkadian hasDialect Middle Assyrian
Assyria historicalPhase Middle Assyrian period
linked to: Middle Assyrian
Ashur associatedWith Middle Assyrian period
linked to: Middle Assyrian
Late Bronze Age overlapsWith Middle Assyrian Empire
linked to: Middle Assyrian
Old Assyrian chronologicallyPrecedes Middle Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian developedFrom Middle Assyrian