The study of linguistic and semantic phenomena that take place in the words common in Akkadian , Arabic and Aramaic of Hatra reflects valuable cultural legacy, useful in understanding these languages and necessary in explaining the mutual relationships across these languages .By this , it is possible to reveal the social and cultural realities of these societies , to reach at some historical conclusions about the events of past decades , and to open the mysterious history of these nations. Aramaic language had a long life, and is still used in some areas of the Levant and Iraq to the present time. Syriac, Nabatieh and Palmyra are the descendants of Aramaic . The golden age of Aramaic continued for three centuries when the Chaldeans were rulers .
The research is divided into some sections such as : architectural writings, which occupies a great deal of the research, astronomical writings , literature writings religious writings, writings about language, and economics writings.These writings are categorized semantically according to the semantic fields, then the study finds out the common words shared with the Iraqi oldest languages such as Akkadian including Arabic.
The researcher depends on old and modern sources and references like Al-Suyuti ,Al-Muarab fort Al-Jawaliqi, books of Akkadian language such as Grammar Book of Akkadian Language by Dr. Amer Suleiman and books of Arabic language such as the book the Philosophy of Language by Georgi Zidane .Additionally , foreign references are consulted such as Chicago Assyrian Dictionary which is abbreviated as (C.A.D) , the Linguistics of Semitic languages, the Dictionary of Language and other considerable researches by the late Prof. Dr. Fouad Safar and other researches contained in Sumer magazine . |