Meaning of Akkadocentric | Babel Free

Definitions

Emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).

rare

Examples

“The two main distorting factors are the ethnocentric approach and the Akkadocentric approach. […] By the Akkadocentric approach I mean the procedure that stops the semantic investigation of a Sumerian word as soon as its Akkadian equivalent is determined.”

“Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture […]”

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