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The Sumerian Lexicon Project
"A forum for the presentation and
discussion of particular points of
the Sumerian lexicon... The main sections are organized alphabetically, according to the lexical
items." Also a section on Akkadian. [eng]
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Sumerian Language Page
Sumerian Lexicon; The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process; Symbolic Counting Tokens from the Early Near East;
Map of Sumerian Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeological Sites; Links to Mesopotamian or Language Web Sites; Proverbs in Sumerian Cuneiform. Maintained by John A. Halloran. [eng]
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Sumerian Language & Writing
The Sumerian language was not deciphered until the nineteenth century of our era when it was found to be different from both the Indo-European and
Semitic language groups. Fifteen hundred cuneiform symbols were reduced in the next thousand years to about seven hundred, but it did not become
alphabetic until about 1300 BC. [eng]
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Sumerian Language Page
Links to Halloran lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing the proto-language, and other Mesopotamian-related sites. [eng]
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THE ORIGIN OF SUMERIAN
Sumerian language. The first efforts of manipulating the foundation language were probably made in Sumeria and at first were quite
unorganized, some using the original Saharan vowel-interlocking agglutination formula while others just put original words together, or
combinations of both systems. [eng]
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Sumerian Language
Archaic Sumerian covered a period from about 3100 BC, when the first Sumerian records make their appearance, down to about 2500 BC. The earliest Sumerian
writing is almost exclusively represented by texts of business and administrative character. There are also school texts in the form of simple exercises in writing signs
and words. The Archaic Sumerian language is still very poorly understood, partly because of the difficulties surrounding the reading and interpretation of early Sumerian
writing and partly because of the meagerness of sources. [eng]
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