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Sumerian Lexicon, Version LexiconVersion A. HalloranThe following lexicon contains 1,255 Sumerian logogram words and 2,511 Sumerian compound words. Alogogram is a reading of a cuneiform sign which represents a word in the spoken language. Sumerian scribesinvented the practice of writing in cuneiform on clay tablets sometime around 3400 in the Uruk/Warka regionof southern Iraq. The language that they spoke, Sumerian , is known to us through a large body of texts andthrough bilingual cuneiform dictionaries of Sumerian and Akkadian, the language of their Semitic successors, towhich Sumerian is not related. These bilingual dictionaries date from the Old Babylonian period (1800-1600 ),by which time Sumerian had ceased to be spoken, except by the scribes. The earliest and most important words inSumerian had their own cuneiform signs, whose origins were pictographic, making an initial repertoire of about athousand signs or logograms. Beyond these words, two-thirds of this lexicon now consists of words that aretransparent compounds of separate logogram words.

Sumerian Lexicon, Version 3.0 2 this do not group together by meaning. The phonetically more complex words and the compound words are listed alphabetically simply by their initial letters.

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