Sumerian
Sumerian
- Stephanie Dalley
Extract
Sumerian is the earliest known language of ancient *Mesopotamia, written on clay and stone in *cuneiform script. Unrelated to other known languages, it is agglutinative and ergative. Largely superseded by (Semitic) *Akkadian, it was used for some religious and literary purposes into the Seleucid period.
Subjects
- Linguistics
- Near East
