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.
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.
Sumerian language and cuneiform script - Omniglot
WEBSumerian. Sumerian was spoken in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia (part of modern Iraq) from perhaps the 4th millennium BC until about 2,000 BC, when it was replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language, though continued to be used in writing for religious, artistic and scholarly purposes until about the 1st century AD.
El idioma sumerio - Enciclopedia de la Historia del Mundo
WEBNov 7, 2015 · El idioma sumerio se hablaba en el sur de Mesopotamia antes del segundo milenio AEC y fue la primera lengua en escribirse en cuneiforme. Es una lengua aislada, lo que quiere decir que no conocemos ninguna...
Mesopotamian Languages | Department of Archaeology
WEBThe principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia were Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian (together sometimes known as 'Akkadian'), Amorite, and - later - Aramaic. They have come down to us in the "cuneiform" (i.e. wedge-shaped) script, deciphered by Henry Rawlinson and other scholars in the 1850s.
Sumerians - World History Encyclopedia
WEBOct 9, 2019 · Definition. The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE. Their name comes from the region which is frequently – and incorrectly – referred to as a “country”.
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.
Sumerian language - Cuneiform, Akkadian, Dialects | Britannica
WEBSumerian is clearly an agglutinative language in that it preserves the word root intact while expressing various grammatical changes by adding on prefixes, infixes, and suffixes. The difference between nouns and verbs, as it exists in the Indo-European or Semitic languages , is unknown to Sumerian.
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