Name Origin. Sumerian comes from the Akkadian šumeru, of unknown meaning. The Sumerians called their language eme-gir (eme ‘language’, gir of uncertain meaning, perhaps ‘native’). Classification: It is a language isolate, no relatives are known.
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Sumerian Dictionary. Every letter must be pronounced. There are no silent syllables in Sumerian. Hence, KIA. is pronounced KEE=ya; KAIMANU is pronounced ka=ee=MAH=nu. Vowels=. a as in father. e as in whey. i as in Antique.
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The Sumerian language is one of the earliest known written languages. The proto-literate period of Sumerian writing spans c. 3300 to 3000 BC. In this period, records are purely logographic, with no linguistic or phonological content. The oldest document of the proto-literate period is the Kish tablet.
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Sumerian language. Sumerian (𒅴𒂠 EME.G̃IR15 native tongue) is the language of ancient Sumer and a language isolate that was spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). During the 3rd millennium BC, a very intimate cultural symbiosis developed between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.
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After a very brief general evaluation of the contents of the huge mass of Sumerian tablet material uncovered in the course of these excavations, it turns to the Sumerian literary tablets which represent the basic material for our study, and analyzes in some detail the scope and date of their contents.
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Answer Wiki. The best way to translate an unknown language is to have a parallel text written in both the target language and some language you already know. The most famous example of that is the Rosetta Stone, a rather pedestrian royal decree that was important enough to be written in heiroglyphics, demotic, and Greek.
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Joshua, you take Akkadian for Sumerian. Behistun inscription has nothing to do with Sumerian. a simple google search shows that. Behistun Inscription. the three language of Behistun are Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian which is a version of Akkadian not Sumerian.
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The study of Sumerian culture introduced by the present volume, Sumerian Mythology, is to be based largely on Sumerian literary sources; it will consist of the formulation of the spiritual and religious concepts of the Sumerians, together with the reconstructed text and translation of the Sumerian literary compositions in which these concepts are ...
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The cuneiform system 17 of writing was probably originated by the Sumerians. The oldest inscriptions unearthed to date-over one thousand tablets and fragments from the latter half of the fourth millennium B. C. which were excavated in Erech in very recent years-are in all likelihood written in the Sumerian language.
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