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Sumerian emerged as a written language in what is now southern Iraq at the end of the 4th millennium BC. It therefore vies with Egyptian for the title of the oldest recorded language in the world. The word "Sumerian" derives from the Akkadian TT word šumeru; the Sumerians themselves referred to their language simply as eme-gi 7 ("native tongue ...
New field work endowments will ensure our continued leadership in national and international field research and discovery. ePSD is an online lexicon of Sumerian, the world's earliest written language which has no relatives, living or dead. The project is housed at the Penn Museum because of its outstanding collection of ancient scribal ...
Mar 22, 2018 · Konstantopoulos started Sumerian as a graduate student at Michigan, learning the language alongside Akkadian. Her interest stemmed originally from ancient religion, but she was soon drawn to the inner workings of the language itself all the more so because of its status as a language isolate.
Nov 7, 2015 · The Sumerian Language was spoken in southern Mesopotamia before the 2nd millennium BCE and was the first language to be written in the cuneiform script. It is an isolate language meaning we know of no other languages that relate to it ancestrally. Although there are some theories that Sumerian is a member of the Uralic languages like Hungarian ...
Sumerian Lexicon, Version 3.0 1 Sumerian Lexicon Version 3.0 by John A. Halloran The following lexicon contains 1,255 Sumerian logogram words and 2,511 Sumerian compound words. A logogram is a reading of a cuneiform sign which represents a word in the spoken language. Sumerian scribes
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, by the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; Sumerian language, English Wikipedia article; Introduction to Sumerian grammar, by Daniel A. Foxvog; Sumerian grammar lessons, a Wikibooks project; Kategorie: Sumerisch, the Sumerian category of articles in the German Wiktionary
