Jon1991 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5367 days ago 98 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian
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I've been reading about Sumerian recently and it is supposed to be the oldest recorded language - dating back to 3000BC. The writing system is similar to Egyption as it uses hierographs.
What got me interested was the movie The Forth Kind where the aliens speak Sumerian as they had contact with the people of Sumer.
Anyone studying Sumerian?
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Lakkhamu Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 5246 days ago 63 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English, Turkish* Studies: Latin, German, Russian
| Message 2 of 3 22 July 2010 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
Probably sumerologist do know the language. I doubt if anyone else does.
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egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5698 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 3 of 3 22 July 2010 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
To my knowledge, a lot of what we know about Sumerian is incomplete and reconstructed,
and a lot of it is via Akkadian. At my uni, two quarters of Akkadian are actually
prerequisites for taking Sumerian.
Jon1991 wrote:
I've been reading about Sumerian recently and it is supposed to be the oldest recorded
language - dating back to 3000BC. The writing system is similar to Egyption as it uses
hierographs.
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Sumerian definitely does not use hieroglyphs. It uses cuneiform that, in some ways,
developed more like Chinese characters did than Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Check these out:
Sumerian
Cuneiform
Akkadian
Egyptian
Edited by egill on 23 July 2010 at 1:49am
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