Sumerian

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 Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; Chicago 1956ff. W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch ; Wiesbaden 1958-1981. R. Borger, “Assyrisch-babylonische Zeichenliste”, Band 33 in Alter Orient und Altes Testament (AOAT),

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