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No, not like that at all. Old Assyrian = Akkadian, New Assyrian = Aramaic. A closer analogy would've been "Arabic to Egyptian", or "Macedonian-Slavic to Ancien
by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
No, not like that at all. Old Assyrian = Akkadian, New Assyrian = Aramaic.
A closer analogy would've been "Arabic to Egyptian", or "Macedonian-Slavic to Ancient Macedonian", as in it's the same language family, but a very different language. In other words, Aramaic did not evolve from Akkadian, it replaced it.