Akkadocentric

English

From Akkado- +‎ -centric.

Akkadocentric (comparative more Akkadocentric, superlative most Akkadocentric) (rare)

Emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).
- 1976, M. Civil, “Lexicography”, in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen‎^[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 142:
  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.
- 2015, Leonid Kogan, Genealogical Classification of Semitic, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 60:
  Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture […]

focused on Akkadic