The history of written Sumerian can be divided into several periods:
• Archaic Sumerian – c. 2900 BC to c. 2600 BC
• Old … 查看更多內容

Sumerian is widely accepted to be a local language isolate. Sumerian was at one time widely held to be an Indo-European language, but that view later came to be almost universally rejected. Ever since deciphe… 查看更多內容

Pictographic proto-writing was used starting in c. 3600 BCE, and this is assumed to be records from people speaking the Sumerian language. By c. 2800 BCE, some tablets began using syllabic elements that clearly indicate… 查看更多內容