Early Human Prehistory - Sumer, Urich and Summer

The first known writing starts to emerge at this point, in those early cities of sumer and the writing developed to record economic transactions. This was the ancient sumerian language, which is not an indo european language. The semitic people spoke a group of closely related semitic languages. And around this point in our story, they still lived in mesopotamia. Some of them lived and spoke semitic languages in the south of sumer but most of them lived further up the tigris and euphrates rivers in central Mesopotamia. Since the ultimate origin of our alphabet lies with the descendants of these semitic speakers, it is their first known appearance on the historical scene