text_combined: query sumerian initial ccs dear fellow subscribers two recent articles claude boisson bsl 84 1 1989 201233 manfred schretter acta orientalia hafn 54 1993 730 argued possibility positing tautosyllabic initial consonant clusters reconstructed level sumerian basing mainly socalled proto ea syllabary glosses sumerian logographs anybody know earlier attempts reconstruct ccv c syllables sumerian attempts use multiple e phonetic transfer readings sumerian logographs purpos ses reconstruction fashion sinologists commonly reconstruct old chinese basis jiajie xiesheng yidu readings chinese characters pointers references subject would highly appreciated best regards wolfgang wolfgang behr sinologie johann wolfgang goethe universit frankfurt main dantestr 4 6 vi postfach 111 932 60054 frankfurt main frg fax 069 7982973 tel 069 7982852