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  1. The Sumerian Lexicon began life in the 1980s as a collection and study of Sumerian logograms (word signs), readings of cuneiform signs that represented words in the spoken Sumerian language.

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    Sumerian scribes invented the practice of writing in cuneiform on clay tablets sometime around 3400 B.C. in the Uruk/Warka region of southern Iraq. The language that they spoke, Sumerian, is known to us through a large body of texts and through bilingual cuneiform dictionaries of Sumerian and Akkadian, the language of their Semitic successors, to

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  4. Published: 2023. Publisher: University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. Author: Mark E. Cohen. format_quote Cite this work. Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200-3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed.

  5. Jun 26, 2006 · ePSD. The Pennsylvania. Sumerian Dictionary. Welcome to the website of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD). The PSD is preparing an exhaustive dictionary of the Sumerian language which aims to be useful to non-specialists as well as Sumerologists.

  6. Introduction. With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of my Sumerian Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site http://www.sumerian.org/ since 1999.

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