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Sumerian (ð’…´ð’‚ EME.ÄœIR15 "native tongue") was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) since at least the 4th millennium BCE. During the third millennium BCE, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism. The influence of Sumerian on Akkadian (and vice versa) is evident in all areas, from lexical borrowing on a massive scale, to syntactic, morphological, and phonological convergence. This has prompted scholars to refer to Sumerian and Akkadian in the third millennium as a sprachbund. Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BCE (the exact dating being a matter of debate), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the first century CE. Then, it was forgotten until the 19th century, when Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets left by these speakers. Sumerian is a language isolate. VarietiesFrom Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  nomdundieu.com 478px x 494px | 35.20kB [source page] other side the head of a fish This with the meaning that he lives in subterranean water Absou in the Sumerian language and this word is copied by our Greek with Abyssos depth of ocean Links T  puli-information.com 319px x 256px | 12.30kB [source page] Damp clay tablets about 5cm wide and 2cms thick and a wedged shaped stylus were the writing materials used Word pictures were drawn on the tablets the earliest know writings are From Yahoo Image Search: "Sumerian language"  ancientworldonline.blogspot.com Charles Ellwood Jones hu, 01 Jul 2010 10:04:00 GM ePSD: electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. Detail photo of an ancient forerunner of a Sumerian dictionary, Nippur, circa 1730 BCE. The PSD is preparing an exhaustive dictionary of the . Sumerian language. which aims to be useful to ...  djdallasjones.com admin Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:09:04 GM The . Sumerian language. persisted side by side with local languages as with the official language of the rulers being Sumerian. In the Indus valley, Sumerian would have persisted along with local Aryan languages. So far scholars have been ...  2012-doomsday-predictions.com 2012 Doomsday Predictions Sat, 22 May 2010 15:53:55 GM Let me get this straight only a few scientists know . sumerian language. ? How do we know if they aren't making things up? and no the bible was made 200 yrs after jesus, but other texts like the Koran, torah were there way before. ... From Google Blog Search: "Sumerian language"  cnn.com Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:50:30 GMT+00:00 cnn the word "leader" can be traced back to what language ? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Greek, B) Middle English, C) Latin or D) Sumerian ? ...  americanchronicle.com Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:38:46 GMT+00:00 American Chronicle ... a multitude of sanctuaries of Mithra and Anahita (Persian gods), a great number of shrines of Cybele (Anatolian goddess of Sumerian origin), ...  archaeology.org Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:13:34 GMT+00:00 Archaeology He taught me Sumerian when I was an undergraduate, which was possible where I went to university. After I graduated, I stayed in touch with him, ... From Google News Search: "Sumerian language" What is the oldest language that exists that you can learn fluently? Q. If most of the ancient language has been saved somehow and you can learn it fluently. For instance Sumerian, or Ancient Egyptian, or any others like that. Asked by Young Raelian - Thu Oct 22 12:49:49 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. I could grunt like the cavemen and fluently if I tried. Seriously, probably Latin. It's a basis for many romance languages and it still is taught in some schools. Answered by You can call me Rob - Fri Oct 23 07:59:10 2009 What is the oldest language, or the oldest script? Q. so in what language were the first words and sounds written? Sumerian, Egyptian? Asked by Diretrym - Wed Mar 17 10:07:44 2010 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. If you are talking about a living language, then Greek or Chinese. Answered by Melissa M - Wed Mar 17 10:38:32 2010 Are there any ancient languages which remain undeciphered?
Q. For example, sumerian or any pre-Egyptian languages. Asked by ellyjay - Sat May 6 11:19:03 2006 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments A. Meroitic, which is an alphabetic script based loosely on a later Nubian adaptation of some Egyptian hieroglyphs used to write the Meroitic language which is either an isolate or in the Nilotic language family (there is still debate). We are actually able to distinguish names and which words are probably nouns and which are verbs, and the alphabetic characters are deciperable, but are unable to actually translate the language. Linear A - a script used in ancient Crete. Indus script Byblos and a few others...see the link below Answered by shoveling_ferret - Sun May 7 01:28:07 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Sumerian language"
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