A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages 2020
DOI: 10.1002/9781119193814.ch25
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“…12 The texts represent a wide variety of genres, ranging from astronomical diaries and sign lists to royal inscriptions and legal texts. Everyday texts such as legal transactions are written in the Neo-Babylonian (Late Babylonian) dialect of Akkadian, while literature and royal inscriptions are written in Standard Babylonian, an archaic literary variety of the language (Hess, 2020). We use a text-wise 80/10/10 train/dev/test split and estimate the model's accuracy against two baseline models by using 10-fold cross-validation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…12 The texts represent a wide variety of genres, ranging from astronomical diaries and sign lists to royal inscriptions and legal texts. Everyday texts such as legal transactions are written in the Neo-Babylonian (Late Babylonian) dialect of Akkadian, while literature and royal inscriptions are written in Standard Babylonian, an archaic literary variety of the language (Hess, 2020). We use a text-wise 80/10/10 train/dev/test split and estimate the model's accuracy against two baseline models by using 10-fold cross-validation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…After this period, the language is generally attested in one of its two main dialects: Assyrian (2000-600 BCE) and Babylonian (2100 BCE-100 CE) (Kouwenberg, 2012), both of which can be divided into different stages of development. From the second millennium BCE onward, there is also a literary dialect of Akkadian known as Standard Babylonian (Hess, 2020). Although most historical speakers of Akkadian appear to have lived in modern Iraq, the language served as a scholarly and diplomatic lingua franca in the Middle East for much of the second millennium BCE (Vita, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Die Epen sind hingegen größtenteils in einem eher schlichten Sprachstil verfasst. Im Laufe der Spätbronzezeit ist eine zunehmende Spaltung der Literatursprache vom zeitgenössischen Akkadischen zu beobachten (Hess 2020). Das daraus entstandene Sprachregister (›Jungbabylonisch‹), wurde nie fest kodifiziert und entwickelte sich weiter zusammen mit den Dialekten.…”
Section: Sprache Und Stilunclassified