Sumerian Natural Languages Linguistics

Sumerian

Sumerian was the first written language of ancient Mesopotamia. Its writing was the Cuneiform script, which came to be used for many other languages of the Middle East and Anatolia.

• - Attempt at demonstrating the Austric (Austronesian) relationship of Sumerian.
  
• - Speculations about the origin of the Sumerian language.
  
• - Description of courses offered on Akkadian and Sumerian by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University.
  
• - Collection of Sumerian texts in transliteration (untranslated), from the University of Leiden (Netherlands).
  
• - Article by Gábor Zólyomi, published in Acta Sumerologica 22.
  
• - A rich source of information on Sumerian, including a classified vocabulary, the story of the language, relevant archaeology (including a map of sites), and collection of links.
  
• - Short history of the language, including circumstances of its rediscovery.
  
  

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