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This project investigates the rise of the Aramaic language and script in the Middle East, exploring how it supplanted the long-dominant Sumerian and Akkadian traditions. It aims to understand the sociolinguistic factors behind this transition and its broader implications for language change.
For more than two thousand years, the Sumerian and Akkadian languages and the cuneiform script dominated the written record of the Middle East (c.3000–500 BCE).
Yet the hegemonic cultural position of these languages began to erode under the Assyrian Empire (935–612 BCE), when the region was subject to an imperial order closely aligned with the Sumero-Akkadian tradition.
How did Aramaic writing, lacking a comparable pedigree or status, manage to establish itself alongside Sumero-Akkadian before d…
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