ACCAD
\ɐkˈad], \ɐkˈad], \ɐ_k_ˈa_d]\
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1, A member of one of the primitive races of Babylonia: one of the dominant race at the time to which the earliest contemporaneous records reach back. This race is believed to have belonged to the Turanian family, or to have been at any rate non-Semitic. Also written AKKAD. "The Accadi, or Accads, were the 'Highlanders' who had descended from the mountainous region of Elam on the east, and it was to them that the Assyrians ascribed the origin of Chaldean civilization and writing."-A. H. Sayce. 2, the language of this race: Accadian.
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