Language and Culture in the Near East

Academy Akkadian Akkadian version Amarna Amarna letters Ammiyya ancient Arabic introduction Arabic language Aramaic Assyrian audience Aziru Babylon Babylonian Bahd Bible Biblical bricks Canaanite century Christians Classical colloquial consonant continuum cultural cuneiform Darius dialect dialogue diglossia Egypt Egyptian Elamite English Esarhaddon Esarhaddon's ethnolect example foreign Fusha genre glosses grammatical Greek Groll Hary Hebrew language Hittite Hurrian immigrants Israel Izre'el Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judeo Judeo-Arabic king Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds Kurm letters lexical lexicon linguistic literary literature logogram Mesopotamian Milkilu Modern Hebrew monument Muslim native NENA Neo-Aramaic Nestorians original period Persian play playwright poetic present Rendsburg royal inscriptions Russian Saadia Gaon Sam'al Sargon šarḥ scholars scribal scribes script Semitic Sippar situation speakers speech spoken Standard Arabic Studies suffix Sumerian tablet teacher temple tense tradition translation Turkish Turoyo Urartean variety verb vowel words writing written in Ammiyya Yiddish Zakho القاهرة عبد ما محمد مصر يا