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Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2023 Recognizing written languages using symbols written in cuneiform is a tough endeavor due to the lack of information and the challenge of the process of tokenization.
Mahmood Maha +3 more
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The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case ending is long -ī- before pronominal suffixes.
Benjamin Suchard
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A Survey of Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Letter Corpus
Journal of Open Humanities DataThe dataset consists of approximately 2,400 examples of metaphors in Akkadian of what we term Body Part Constructions (BPCs) within the letter sub-corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo).
Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin
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Three More Duplicates to Astrolabe b
Belleten, 1984 While the present author had been studying under the supervision of Prof. W.G. Lambert, in Birmingham, in order to get his Ph.
G. Çağırgan
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Imperial and Local: Audience and Identity in the Idrimi Inscription
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 This article studies the Idrimi inscription from ancient Alalah, modern Tell Atchana, in order to explore how and to what effect manifestations of empire may have been socially consequential to local populations ruled by Mittani.
Jacob Lauinger
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Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS [PDF]
, 2004 This is a proposal to encode the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.0 in July 2006.
Everson, Michael +2 more
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Music of everyday life (on the example of the musical instrument rabab)
Проект Байкал, 2022 Modern Arab culture retains many living elements adopted from ancient, now extinct cultures. Using the example of the traditional musical instrument rabab, the connection of modern culture with the cultures of the distant past (starting from the Sumero-
Али Салем Альшурман
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Introduction: Music, Social Identity, Political Cohesion [PDF]
, 2019 Zwischen dem 5. und 1. Jhdt. v. Chr. betrachteten politische Theoretiker in China und Europa Musik als nützlichen Maßstab für den politischen Charakter und Zustand von Gesellschaften und ihren Machthabern.
Eichmann, Ricardo +2 more
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