What Is The Oldest Dictionary Still Being Printed Today?
Noah Webster’s dictionary, 1828. Which is the oldest dictionary in the world? The oldest known dictionaries were cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian–Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated to roughly 2300 BCE, the time of the Akkadian Empire. The early 2nd millennium BCE Urra=hubullu glossary is the canonical Babylonian version of such bilingual …
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