Sumerians and the Birth of Writing
The Ancients
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Sumerian
Clay, of course, is cheap. It's everywhere in in southern eracis. That's the world that term it's based on. You're building your houses from it and you're using it to write on. So it's incredibly flexible material. And because it's cheap and flexible and you have a system which is sufficiently complex to record a spoken language,. all the ideas that come out of that, it lasts for thousands of years. Do we have any idea if there were any other languages that were being spoken alongside sumerian during this sumerian period? Almost certainly. We get hints of that in the texts themselves. There are grammatical elements which suggest that there
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