Sumerian language - Wikipedia
WebSumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native language'') is the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.
Sumerian language | History, Characteristics, & Facts
WebSumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. First attested about 3100 BCE in southern Mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium BCE. About 2000 BCE, Sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by Semitic Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian).
Sumerian Language - World History Encyclopedia
WebNov 7, 2015 · The Sumerian Language was spoken in southern Mesopotamia before the 2nd millennium BCE and was the first language to be written in the cuneiform script. It is an isolate language meaning we know of no other languages that relate to it ancestrally.
Sumerian language and cuneiform script - Omniglot
WebSumerian is not related to any other known language so is classified as a language isolate. Sumerian cuneiform. Sumerian cuneiform is the earliest known writing system. Its origins can be traced back to about 8,000 BC and it developed from the pictographs and other symbols used to represent trade goods and livestock on clay tablets.
Sumerians - World History Encyclopedia
WebOct 9, 2019 · Sumerian was well established as the written language by the late 4th century BCE and Sumerian culture, religion, architecture, and other significant aspects of civilization were as well.
Getting Started with... Sumerian — Institute for the Study of the ...
WebMar 22, 2018 · Sumerian is the oldest language that we can read that has come to us from antiquity, with clay tablets surviving from as far back as roughly 3200 BCE. As a spoken language, it likely died out around the middle of the second millennium, but continued to be used as a literary language for at least another 900 years.
Mesopotamian Languages | Department of Archaeology
WebSumerian is an "agglutinating" language with no known relatives. It was spoken in South Iraq until it died out, probably around 2000 BC, giving way to Babylonianian; but it survived as a scholarly and liturgical language, much like mediaeval Latin, until the very end of cuneiform in the late 1st millennium BC.
Sumerian language - Cuneiform, Akkadian, Dialects | Britannica
WebSumerian language - Cuneiform, Akkadian, Dialects: The linguistic affinity of Sumerian has not yet been successfully established. Ural-Altaic (which includes Turkish), Dravidian, Brahui, Bantu, and many other groups of languages have been compared with Sumerian, but no theory has gained common acceptance.
Sumerian language - Wikiwand
WebSumerian is the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.
The Sumerian language - Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform …
WebSumerian is the earliest documented language in Mesopotamia, and perhaps the world. Long after it ceased to be spoken as a mother tongue, knowledge of it continued to be maintained as a prestigious part of Mesopotamian scholarship until the death of cuneiform writing some two thousand years later.
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