Akkadians were ancient people who infiltrated and dwelled in the Mesopotamian region, after the region had been previously been inhabited by Sumerian people. Unlike the Sumerians, the Akkadians were Semits and developed many city-states throughout Mesopotamian region -like Assyria in the north and Babylon in the south- many of them competed against themselves. Although being of different ancestor from the Sumerians, the Akkadians adopted fully Sumerian culture and mainly writing system, the cuneiform. Akkadian is the oldest written Semitic language. In 900 BC, it began to be replaced by Aramaic, the language which Jesus of Nazareth spoke. |
Ancient Egyptian has been revealed ! Thanks to the enormous effort of great egyptologists, we, amaetur, finally can find out how the Ancient Egyptian language worked! Leading you to the most important aspects beyond Ancient Egyptian language, this material also teaches you how to decipher egyptian hieroglyphs |
Dutch is the language used by the people in the Netherlands, Belgium, Surinam (South America), the Netherlands Antilles, and was widely used in Indonesia, during Indonesia's 3 century colonisation by the Dutch. Dutch belongs to the Germanic group of Indo-European language family. It is closely related with German, where it differs in grammar (Dutch grammar is far simpler than German), vocabulary (slightly), and mainly pronunciation. Whereas most Dutch can understand written and spoken German, the Germans can only understand written Dutch. Later, Dutch gave birth to Afrikaans, the language used by the Dutch colonies in South Africa, which is far simpler and more regular than Dutch. |
German is the language spoken currently by about 100 million people in Germany, Austria, part of Switzerland, and northern Italy. Together with Dutch, Danish, English, Swedish, and some other languages, German belongs to the Germanic group of Indo-European language family. In comparison to other Germanic languages, Modern German is the only language to still preserve the grammar complexity of the Germanic group's father language. By the European Language Committee, German is rated as the second hardest language to learn in Europe by non-Germans, after Russia. German itself is a non-German word firstly mentioned by Julius Caesar which perhaps meant the neighbours in Celtic. German itself is called Deutsch in German which comes from the Old German diusco which meant the (common) people. |
Hititte are ancient people who inhabited the Anatolian (modern Turkish republic) region from 1800 to 1200 BC. They were Indo-European people and were perhaps among the first of Indo-European people who had conflict with the ancient Egyptian kingdom under its king -Ramesses II, who is often hypothesised as the chaser of Moses in the biblical story- for their ambition to rule Syria and Palestine. |
Japanese is the language used by the people in Japan, a country which has a rich culture and tradition. Like Korean, Japanese didn't originate from Chinese. Due to its peculiarity in its vocabulary, Japanese is not related to world's any language family and has its own family: the Japanese language family. However, high similarity in grammatical structure and syntax has made Japanese subject to proposal as a language of Altaic language family, where Mongolian, Manchurian, and Turkish belong to. |
Mandarin is the official and uniting language of China, which has hundreds of languages spoken by its citizens. Contrary to common (mis)understanding, Mandarin, as well as the Chinese people, doesn't originate from the same ancestor as Japanese and Korean do. Mandarin belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, although since its presence thousands of years ago, it has indeed influenced China's neighbouring cultures and languages, such as Japanese and Korean. Mandarin has its own script, known as Hanzhi, which gave birth to Japanese and Korean Kanji. |