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| | Sumer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Sumerians engaged in siege warfare between their cities, and the mudbrick walls failed to deter foes who had the time to pry out the bricks. | | | Lugal-Zage-Si, the priest-king of Umma, overthrew the primacy of the Lagash dynasty, took Uruk, making it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. | | | Historian Alan Marcus says: "Sumerians held a rather dour perspective on life" |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian
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| | Languge death |
| | The language of writing for this particular scribe and his milieu was still Sumerian, but in reporting stylized direct speech he acknowledged that the vernacular in his world was already Akkadian. | | | The choice of official language is a political and ideological issue and not an ethnic one. | | | The death of Sumerian has been the subject of speculation, or rather of asserted theses, but it has never been discussed at length. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/DIGLOS~1.htm
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| | Sumerian Mythology: Introduction |
| | Of the Sumerian inscriptions that are not economic in character, one group consists of approximately six hundred building and dedicatory inscriptions on steles, bricks, cones, vases, etc. It is from this relatively small group of inscriptions that the political history of Sumer has been largely recovered. | | | For it was soon recognized that this was the script and language found in numerous inscriptions and bricks, clay tablets, and clay cylinders which were finding their way into Europe from sites that might well be identified with Nineveh and Babylon. | | | It is true that toward the very end of the third millennium the Sumerians made a final attempt at political control of Mesopotamia, and under the so-called "Third Dynasty of Ur" met with a certain initial success. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/sum/sum05.htm
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| | Sumerian Language - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community |
| | Sumerian is a very ancient language and is not much about it, due to the fact that the location of sumeria is mostly in iraq, I became interested on this subject about a year ago and is one author name zacharia stichin, that worte on a fictional book about the sumerians and their advance civilization. | | | Sumerian Language - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community | | | Use this board to engage in collaborative discussion and debate on a broad range of conspiracy, extraterrestrial, secret project, government agency, and other alternative topics. |
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread55271/pg#pid616962
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| | History of Sumer - Brief Overview |
| | The time before the flood was said to be a period of 432,000 years. | | | These were concepts that would find their way ultimately into Persion theology, and then even into popular Christian theology. | | | Meanwhile, another group of people, Semitic by background -- had built the kingdom of Akkad under the leadership of Sargon I, who established his capital at Agade, 200 miles northwest of the Sumerian city states. |
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http://www.theology.edu/sumer.htm
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| | Sumerian History |
| | Lugal-Zage-Si, the priest-king of Umma, overthrew the primacy of the Lagash dynasty, took Uruk, making it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. | | | This has led some to suggest that Gilgamesh really was a historical king of Uruk. | | | The Sumerians, with a language, culture, and, perhaps, appearance different from their Semitic neighbors and successors were at one time believed to have been invaders, but the archaeological record shows cultural continuity from the time of the early Ubaid period (5200-4500 BC C-14, 6090-5429 calBC) settlements in southern Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/sumerhistory.html
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| | The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process |
| | This was not the case for the inventors of the proto-Sumerian language because they were trying to use the mouth and the sounds that it produced to 'point' at objects and actions. | | | 367; J.A. Black, "The Alleged Extra Phonemes of Sumerian," Revue d'Assyriologie, 84(1990), pp. | | | The idea of a chamber may have led to the idea of a 'woman' in her child-bearing capacity and thence to the meanings 'to cause to be' and 'to go out'. |
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http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm
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| | It is better to admit this fact freely and not to use some very individualistic explanation and mislead the reader, or to calumniate the ancients. | | | These scientists, says Waddell, "begin their work laden with false racial and religious theories and did not have a key to the sound-values of personal names, which we inherited with Sumerian signs that had several sound-values. | | | Posing these questions is validated by the fact that there is no historical evidence that these ancient eastern languages were called Sumerian or Egyptian by the actual residents of these cultures or the record-keepers of the time. |
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http://www.acronet.net/~magyar/english/96-07/baraeast.html
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| | Sumerian Mythology FAQ |
| | Many of the myths are more developed here, some of which are only glossed over in The Sumerians, however in some cases The Sumerians holds the more complete or updated myth. | | | Sumerian cuneiform, the earliest written language, was borrowed by the Babylonians, who also took many of their religious beliefs. | | | For the next century the Sumerians were extremely prosperous, but their society collapsed around 2000 BCE under the invading Amorites. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/sumer-faq.html
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| | Translating Elvis into Sumerian |
| | Of course, Sumerian was spoken in Mesopotamia (as Egyptian was spoken in Egypt) hundreds if not thousands of years before the invention of writing. | | | Further information on Sumerian and the Sumerians can be found at | | | I know little about the Sumerian language but would be interested in any background you could give me. The popular perception is that it is the world's oldest language, though I have read that some archeological findings show the world's oldest language may now be traced to Egypt. |
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http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/sumercd.html
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| | Sumerian |
| | Sumerian speaking people settled in the land they called Sumer, in a region of the | | | The Sumerian language is the oldest sophisticated form of writing in existence, and dates from at least 3400 B.C.E. These early writings, however, are neither crude nor primitive, and no other source as been identified as to where it might have been developed. | | | The Sumerian language itself has been an enigma to linguists and scholars ever since the first tablets of that ancient language were re-discovered in the nineteenth century. |
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http://www.halexandria.org/dward183.htm
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| | ETCSL:ETCSLlanguage |
| | Sumerian is a long-extinct language documented throughout the ancient Middle East, in particular in the south of modern Iraq. | | | The other language for which we have extensive written evidence in the ancient Middle East is Akkadian. | | | Similarly non-human pronominal morphemes can be used to refer to groups of people or deities. |
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http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/edition2/language.php
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| | Sumerian and Austric Language |
| | According to many experts, the Al-Ubaid people were ancestral to the Sumerians, or at least, to their culture. | | | tuku "to tremble" Sumerian teki- to tremble, Anutan, takariri- to shake, Anutan. | | | sar "to write, inscribe" Sumerian sulatin- Philippines, sorga- "writing," Pagu, sulat- "writing," Philippines, surat- "to write," Ilokano. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9845/sumer.htm
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| | Sumerian language |
| | This distinguishes it from other languages of the area such as Hebrew, Akkadian, which also comprises Babylonian[?] and Assyrian, and Aramaic, which are Semitic languages. | | | Sumerian was the first language to be written with a cuneiform or "wedge-shaped" script, which was later also used for Akkadian. | | | This script was even adapted to Indo-European languages like Hittite (which also had a hieroglyphic script, as did the Egyptians and the Mayans) and Old Persian[?]. |
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http://www.fastload.org/su/Sumerian_language.html
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| | Sumerian Myths |
| | Sumerian cities were close agglomerations of one or two story mud brick dwellings. | | | The Sumerians developed one of the earliest civilizations on earth (3500-1750 B.C.), but the existence of such a people and civilization was not even suspected until the middle of the 19th century. | | | Eventually, after a half-century of decipherment and excavation, the existence of the Sumerian language, people, and civilization was confirmed. |
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http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/SumerianMyth.htm
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| | Sumer |
| | The fragments of Sumerian literature that have survived appear to have been written by Sumerian temple scribes and are heavily religious. | | | I myself can correct his confused words in his own language. | | | Fifthly, when a man of Subir yells......, I can even distinguish the words in his language, although I am not a fellow-citizen of his. |
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http://www.humanistictexts.org/sumer.htm
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| | Online Dictionary Helps Unravel Sumerian Language |
| | Funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Sumerian Dictionary project is staffed by seven people who have spearheaded the digitizing process. | | | For the next several millennia, several Middle Eastern cultures the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites and Assyrians ; would use the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform to write letters, record their taxes, and remember their myths. | | | Four thousand years ago, in the Sumerian city of Nippur, scribes were attending classes to learn a relatively new and privileged profession: writing. |
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038653/posts
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| | SUMERIAN COMPARISON TABLE |
| | Those interested in Sumerian may also be interested in viewing | | | For an explanation of the Proto-Language and Indo-European notational conventions used in these essays, press here. | | | Additional resources are the Sumerian Glossary at this website, which is arranged alphabetically; |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/c-SUMERIAN-5_table.htm
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| | PSD: home page |
| | All materials will be made freely available on this website. | | | Welcome to the website of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD). | | | The PSD is preparing an exhaustive dictionary of the Sumerian language which aims to be useful to non-specialists as well as Sumerologists. |
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http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd
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| | ETCSLhomepage |
| | So far it has made accessible, via the World Wide Web, more than 350 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the late third and early second millennia BCE. | | | The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website. | | | The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) is based at the University of Oxford. |
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http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk
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