Orality, Literacy, and the Psychology of Babylonian-Assyrian Orthography1
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):97–137 1. Introduction What happens at the interface of Orality and Literacy? The societies of Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and environs) provide abundant evidence for exploring this question. The present paper argues that the system of spelling used for Babylonian and Assyrian (“Akkadian”), in the second and first millennia BCE, reflects the […]
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