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suxSumerian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Sumerian ( "native tongue") is the language of ancient Sumer, which was spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) since at least the 4th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC, 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. but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD. 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.

Entry terms

  • Sumerian language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • sux

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • sux

ISO 639-3 code

  • sux

Notation

  • sux

In other languages

  • Sumérien

    French

  • sumérien
  • Sumerisch

    German

  • Sumerische Sprache
  • sumero

    Italian

  • Lingua sumera
  • Portuguese

  • Língua suméria
  • sumerio

    Spanish

  • Idioma sumerio

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sux

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