Babylonian
Extinct languageLanguage Information
Babylonian was spoken in ancient Babylonia, in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). It is extinct.
Babylonian was one of the two main dialects of Akkadian, the East Semitic language of Mesopotamia, alongside Assyrian. It was written in cuneiform on clay tablets from about 2000 B.C. The Code of Hammurabi and the Epic of Gilgamesh are among its best known texts. Babylonian was gradually replaced by Aramaic and died out as a spoken language in the 1st millennium B.C., though it continued to be written until about the 1st century A.D.
Babylonian was one of the two main dialects of Akkadian, the East Semitic language of Mesopotamia, alongside Assyrian. It was written in cuneiform on clay tablets from about 2000 B.C. The Code of Hammurabi and the Epic of Gilgamesh are among its best known texts. Babylonian was gradually replaced by Aramaic and died out as a spoken language in the 1st millennium B.C., though it continued to be written until about the 1st century A.D.
- Language Family
- Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic)
- Subgroup
- Semitic
- Branch
- East Semitic