Category:Sumerian
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Sumerian is the language of the people of Sumer, a region in Mesopotamia. Sumer is recognized as the site of the world's first urban civilization, which flourished in the third and early second millennia BCE, and the Sumerian language is recognized as the oldest written language.
Cuneiform was invented for the Sumerian language, an isolate (non-Semitic) language. When Sumerian was replaced by Akkadian in every-day life of the peoples in Mesopotamia, cuneiform was continued to be used for the Semitic sounds. Therefore, also Sumerograms continued to be used in written language until the beginning of the common era.
Pages in category "Sumerian"
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