Sumerians and the Birth of Writing
The Ancients
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What Is a Semitic Language?
Cuniform is an incredibly flexible system, because the signs represent essentially sound values. But with using that system, you can use also signs to represent entire words or a sense of meaning. Although the earliest languages recognized within this system were the semitic languages,. They were actualy relatively late in terms of recording. hidden within these late recorded languages were these elements which pointed to this earlier recorded language.
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