This is a classroom experiment. As Babylon grew, the language spoken on its streets changed. This remarkable tablet captures interaction between the age-old cuneiform writing for Babylonian Akkadian and the alphabetic Aramaic that ultimately displaced it. Here a teacher imposed a challenging writing exercise on pupils who spoke both languages. They had to use traditional cuneiform syllabic signs to express the sound of the Aramaic alphabet. The letter order is the same as that of the modern Hebrew alphabet. From Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 500 BCE. (The British Museum, Iraq)
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