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زبان سومری
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language of ancient Sumer
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Sumerian was the language spoken by the ancient people of Sumer in what is now southern Iraq, and it is one of the earliest known written languages in human history. It matters because the Sumerians developed one of the world's first writing systems to record their language, which provides crucial evidence about early civilization, including how people organized societies, conducted trade, and documented their daily lives thousands of years ago.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ancient language
- Subclass of
- human language
- Country
- Akkadian Empire
- Image
- Sumerian 26th c Adab.jpg
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- native label
- 𒅴𒂠
- indigenous to
- Sumer
- has grammatical case
- equative case
- writing system
- cuneiform
- Commons category
- Sumerian language
- topic's main category
- Category:Sumerian language
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- linguistic typology
- ergative–absolutive language
- short name
- шумерӣ
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- P10369
- Il Canto degli Italiani
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