Akkadian

• “At that time, scholars called the language of the first civilizations Assyrian, but they later learned that Assyrian developed from the more ancient tongue they call Akkadian.”

  Voice of America: Dictionary of Akkadian Language Links Modern Civilization with Ancient Origins

• “This presumes that Ea might be transliterated into Hebrew as AYH, of course, but since Ea was vocalised as "éya" and is given in Akkadian as "Ay (y) a", maybe that's not such a stretch,”

  A Dark And Hidden God

• “The tiny fragment bears an ancient form of writing known as Akkadian wedge script and has a partial text including the words "you," "them" and "later.”

  The Washington Post: North Korean, U.N. officials to hold talks on sinking of South Korean warship

• “Dig director Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University says the 2-centimeter (0. 8-inch) long fragment bears an ancient form of writing known as Akkadian wedge script.”

  The Huffington Post: Oldest Script In Jerusalem History Found, From 14th Century B.C.E.

• “And in cuneiform text such as Akkadian, vowels we integrated in the language kvar mizman.”

  Hail the vowel god! | Jewschool

• “Finnish (also 'Akkadian') [36] or aboriginal with themselves, really makes but little difference, so far as the interpretation of Aryanism is concerned; for what the Aryans got from the wild tribes of that day is insignificant if established as existent at all.”

  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

• “Gandharva with Gan-Eden, K [= a] çi (Benares) with the land of the sons of Kush; Gautama with Chinese ( 'Akkadian') _gut_, 'a bull, 'etc. All this is as fruitful of unwisdom as was the guess-work of European savants two centuries ago.”

  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

• “In the Eastern languages, such as Akkadian, the word means "beloved, darling" and denotes a (personal) object of love.”

  Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective

• “The oldest languages on earth—Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian—are extremely complicated in their verb forms and conjugations.83 Professor George Simpson of Harvard University says of this, “The oldest language that can reasonably be reconstructed is already modern, sophisticated, complete from an evolutionary point of view.””

  Simon & Schuster: Modern Science in the Bible

• “The Akkadian word for eating, that little bread-in-mouth ideogram, survives to this day as the Arabic verb akala, “to eat,” and the closely related noun akil, “food.””

  Simon & Schuster: Day of Honey

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