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 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.

homophone numeration here follows the 'BCE-System' developed by Borger, Civil, and Ellermeier. The 'accents' and subscript numerals do not affect the pronunciation. The numeration system is a convention to inform Assyriologists which, for example, of the many cuneiform signs that have the reading du actually occurs on the tablet.

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