Old Babylonian
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Old Babylonian may refer to:
- the period of the First Babylonian DynastyFirst Babylonian DynastyThe chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated as there is a Babylonian King List A and a Babylonian King List B. In this chronology, the regnal years of List A are used due to their wide usage...
(20th to 16th centuries BC) - the historical stage of the Akkadian languageAkkadian languageAkkadian is an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate...
of that time