Learn Akkadian

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@JGHFunRun 13 сағат бұрын

I'm here because I need to warn my fellow akkadians about a many selling some very bad copper, but due to colonialism I only speak English

@conniefoxx9813 17 сағат бұрын

Wow. Came across by accident and decided to watch. You explain it so well, and I'm amazed you have memorized all this. It is fascinating.

@user-ic3mr8nn8y 2 күн бұрын

"Işatum" sounds like "fire" in Hebrew: "eş" (אש)

@CysonAustin 8 күн бұрын

bro’s pronunciation is garbage

@msladebeatz 10 күн бұрын

Wait! What? What was the translation of the first word you had written out?

@louesorg 14 күн бұрын

Loving it so far! :O

@louesorg 14 күн бұрын

Amazing, I'm starting today! :)

@RobespierreThePoof 18 күн бұрын

Art historian here .. but a modernist! I often teach the 101 survey so i thought i would at learn learn the basics of the cubeiform writing system. I understand Akkadian is painfully difficult. Edit: and just a couple minutes in, I see why it's often said that cuneiform is a messy writing system. The characters do not line up clearly with an individual phoneme?! We might as well be learning English spelling! 🤙

@StevosWoes 21 күн бұрын

Totally awesome channel thanks for studying Akkadian and Cuneiform and giving a simplified introduction course to this for all of us non-graduate students of semitic/ancient semitic languages. I think this course is one of a kind on youtube! As an Arabic learner who is fascinated by its extinct semitic brother language, I would highly recommend anyone learning Akkadian to study the living language Arabic and even more so not only MSA Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha) but also Egyptian Arabic or any spoken dialect, because it is so much easier to understand and speak a living semitic language. This in turn allows me to follow along with "Learn Akkadian" guys awesome channel! Basically Arabic is much easier to learn and understand how it works and sounds, so it puts you on the fast track to learning Akkadian much more intuitively and quickly. This is because Akkadian and Arabic is similar to the difference between Spanish and Italian, except if Italy had been conquered by Spain and now they only spoke Spanish in modern Italy sort of scenario. So obviously its very easy to quickly learn Italian if you speak Spanish (I say this as a native Spanish speaker who learned and can easily understand Italian because of the roots and grammar being very similar). I definitely can easily follow along with this by knowing Arabic and it blows me away. I am not sure that semitic languages actually have an "infinitive form" I think that is an english standardization but not natural to semitic languages. They have a root, a past form and a a present form and then prefixes and suffixes to indicate further specific tenses. That said I could be mistaken and it may have existed in Akkadian, but using deduction most likely you can "force/invent/contrive an infinitive" but I don't think it naturally exists in the language structure. For example I don't think any Akkadian speaker actually said "zakarum" in real life daily speech. Well done on this course and I hope you make another one!

@rowancampbell864 21 күн бұрын

would it not be i-ša-tum? that's how it's written at the top of the text you showed

@cynthiamariebrewer7837 23 күн бұрын

Hello and thank you❤ my best interpretation I think it means is an idea posed by symbals rather than by letters... The first: pi = a ⭕ circle which is the symbol for God, Omicron, all, sun, eternal, universe, and the logos, "the". The second being: am, is, be and equals, image and likeness, seed, seedling. The third: mu, the Cradle of civilization of this era on Earth, Eden, Genesis, seed, seedlings in the plantation. The fourth: Ra, god, Sun God, source, energy, force field, progenitor, Ray. The fifth: bi, two, ka, spirit, soul,.... Meaning I Am a child of God, made and sustained by the Sun, and seedling from the Tree/vine of Ra, a Divine being of Source..... How does that grab you? Am I anywhere close? I've never tried this before so I may have just really embarrassed myself, but not as badly if I didn't try... My question would be how did you decide for the symbols to mean the letters that you've chosen????

@Dexalium 24 күн бұрын

This guide is so helpful! Thank you! Now I can write a complaint to Ea-nasir about the copper he sold my ancestors maybe 4000 years ago.

@marmieRH 25 күн бұрын

Wow I just subscribed from Québec 😊 I hope you are helping Dr irving finkel with his 30,000 tablets? 😊 I wish I could ❤

@j.n.-fr5uh 27 күн бұрын

so happy to see this honestly. wont become an assyriologist tho sry :\

@gaiaiulia Ай бұрын

And I thought the Devanagari script was difficult! Lol!

@ericoz650 Ай бұрын

Interesting to know opinion about book "The Lost Book of Enki", did anybody try translate those Tablets except Z. S. ? Interesting his version of translation +- correct to what was written on original language?

@bavid4430 Ай бұрын

Yoo love your stuff you deserve more ❤

@leftofright Ай бұрын

Thanks for this intro

@LemonDropYum Ай бұрын

Do we need to know Aramaic or another language before learning this one?

@learnakkadian Ай бұрын

Any background knowledge of a Semitic language is useful but definitely not necessary to learn Akkadian!

@zmail8566 Ай бұрын

Same as Hebrew pretty much "esh" אש super cool!

@user-iy2yx6cz4q Ай бұрын

Mar means snake in kurdish....impressive how similer to all the sounds in kurdish!

@wordfacts Ай бұрын

Great explanation. It is a good skill to explain the basic use of the system without getting bogged down in the form of word making or clay stylus as I've seen

@learnakkadian Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@user-ec9zy4lb8d Ай бұрын

Idependent pronouns same in Abric 😮

@user-ec9zy4lb8d Ай бұрын

Lu, same pronounce in arabic and we used it nowaday in Iraq

@juliannaruffini Ай бұрын

how? Akkadian "lu" is not arabic"lau". Lu is more Au; n arabic

@creamrisesup Ай бұрын

The sounds have a striking resemblance with the Amharic language.

@learnakkadian Ай бұрын

Interesting where is the Amharic language from?

@creamrisesup Ай бұрын

@@learnakkadian it's the national language of Ethiopia.

@sahhaf1234 2 ай бұрын

pls pls continue making videos on akkadian..

@stellank450 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting.Thank you! Greetings from Italy. PS Where the hell are you? :)

@warmwestwind 2 ай бұрын

Holy shit this rules. Glory to Inanna ✴

@warmwestwind 2 ай бұрын

"There's nothing more dangerous than a bad translation." FACTS

@learnakkadian Ай бұрын

Glad you agree!

@eleanorerosanova7538 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thank you

@CertainlyfromIraq 2 ай бұрын

We ask you to ask Google to include a dictionary of the Akkadian language in Google Translator.

@learnakkadian Ай бұрын

That would be so cool! @Google

@BLUES-168 2 ай бұрын

𒀀𒀂𒀈𒀉𒀋𒀍𒀎

@gaapgoetia8953 2 ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial. I've been wanting to make proper Cuneiform tablets, and this is invaluable information on how to correctly read and write/indent

@learnakkadian 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@gaapgoetia8953 2 ай бұрын

@@learnakkadian My favorite writing system, just beautiful to look at. Honestly both surprised and glad to find such a concise series. Thanks!

@ambientzoo6764 2 ай бұрын

An eye for an eye?

@jespermynchau5580 2 ай бұрын

Its not pronounced ham, like Hamburg. Its pronounced ham, like "harm" Ham'murabi.

@robrrr71 3 ай бұрын

You are an absolute genius, man! Thanks a lot!😊

@aterus69 3 ай бұрын

𒃀𒀀𒌠 𒁭𒀭𒊠𒋠

@stefanzielinski3582 3 ай бұрын

Please come back!. Will you continue?

@mattorsie4421 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for a great introduction! What would you recommend as reference if I wanted to tell the difference between Akkadian and the Babylonian/Assyrian dialects of cuneiform? I'd like to get to the point of at least looking at a script and saying "This is most likely written by the .....". Thanks in advance.

@learnakkadian 3 ай бұрын

Hey Matt I would recommend checking out R. Labat’s manuel d’epigraphie akkadienne

@learnakkadian 3 ай бұрын

The on catch is that it’s in french, but it is by far the resource and since all you need is the Akkadian transliteration and the sign it won’t be a problem. Hope this helps!

@mattorsie4421 3 ай бұрын

@@learnakkadian Thanks, I'm still waiting for the book to arrive. I do have a small 3x2 tablet and was wondering if you could point in the right direction as to whether it's Akkadian or perhaps a Babylonian/Assyrian dialect? It was label as Sumerian c.a 3000BC but based on my limited knowledge it doesn't seem to be Sumerian.