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Cuneiform

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known…

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Child systems
None; influenced the shape of Ugaritic and Old Persian glyphs
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Sumerian, Akkadian, Amorite, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Kalašma, Kaskian (possibly), Luwian, Urartian, Palaic, Ugaritic, Old Persian
Parent systems
Cuneiform
Period
c. 2900 BC – c. 100 AD
Region
Sumer

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Cuneiform

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Cuneiform

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related to Final period of use · 32
Cuneiform → AD, Akkadian, Aramaic, Astronomical Diaries, Babylon, Babylonian Priestly Literature, Babylonian Temple Rituals, BC, Beginning, Eanna, Eastern Aramaic, Ebabbar, Emesal, Esangil, From, Greek, Iamblichus, In, Louvre, Many
related to External links · 28
Cuneiform → AI, ANE Today, Annotated, Archived November, Assyriologist Kateřina, Avital Romach, Columbia University, Columbia University Cuneiform Collection, Cornell UniversityFinding, Digital Assyriology, Digital Library InitiativeTablet Collections, Ernst, From Card Catalogues, Manuscript LibraryThe Cuneiform Wide, Mapped Photographs, Neo-Assyrian, Oct, Open Data Cuneiform Tablets, PolygonalWedge Detection Learned, R-CNN
related to Elamite cuneiform · 22
Cuneiform → Achaemenid, Akkad, Akkadians, Babylonian, BC, Because Elamite, Behistun, Elamite, Elamites, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Hita, Iran, Linear Elamite, Nāramsîn, Nāramsîn's, Old Persian, Proto-Elamite, Rosetta Stone's, Semitic, Some
related to Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform · 21
Cuneiform → Akkadian, Akkadian Empire, Assyrian, At, Babylonian, BC, East Semitic, From, Middle Bronze Age, Old Akkadian, Semitic, Still, Such, Sumerian, Sumerians, Sumerograms, The, The Akkadian, The Akkadians, The East Semitic
related to Usage · 20
Cuneiform → According, Assyriologists, BC, Besides, Citizens, Claus Wilcke, Code, Cuneiform Culture, Dominique Charpin, Hammurabi, In, It, Kassite, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, One, Oxford Handbook, Scholars, Studies, The
related to Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian cuneiform · 19
Cuneiform → Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal King, Assyria, Assyrian, Aššur KI Same, Aššur-bani-habal, Babylonian, BC, Black Pharaoh, Egypt, In, Iron Age, Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Rassam, Sumero-Akkadian, Taharqa, The, The Rassam
related to Sign inventories · 19
Cuneiform → Akkadian, BC, Bibliography, Deimel, Early Dynastic II, Early Dynastic IIIa, Falkenstein, Hittite, Keilschriftzeichen, LAK, Lexikon, Liste, Not, See, Sumerian, The Sumerian, This, Uruk, With
related to Hittite cuneiform · 17
Cuneiform → Akkadian, Akkadograms, Anatolian, Assyrian, BC, Hattic, Hittite, Hittite Empire, Indo-European, Luwian, More, Old Assyrian, Palaic, Sumerian, Sumerograms, Thus, When
related to Sumerian pictographs (c. 3300 BC) · 16
Cuneiform → BC, Early, Early Dynastic, It, Jemdet Nasr, Mesopotamia's, Near Eastern, Proto-Elamite, Sumerian, Susa, Tell Brak, The, These, Ur, Uruk III, Uruk IV
related to Transliteration · 15
Cuneiform → Akkadian, Because, Da, DINGIR, DINGIR-a, For, Hittite, Ila, In, Someone, Sumerian, Sumerogram, Therefore, This, Water

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bc signs sumerian akkadian used writing sign script century tablets written old language period early hittite use elamite persian languages

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CuneiformChild systemsNone; influenced the shape of Ugaritic and Old Persian glyphs1.00infobox
CuneiformDirectionLeft-to-right1.00infobox
CuneiformISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Xsux (020), ​Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian1.00infobox
CuneiformLanguagesSumerian, Akkadian, Amorite, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Kalašma, Kaskian (possibly), Luwian, Urartian, Palaic, Ugaritic, Old Persian1.00infobox
CuneiformParent systemsCuneiform1.00infobox
CuneiformPeriodc. 2900 BC – c. 100 AD1.00infobox
CuneiformRegionSumer1.00infobox
CuneiformScript typeLogographic and syllabary1.00infobox
CuneiformUnicode aliasCuneiform1.00infobox
CuneiformUnicode rangeU+12000 to U+123FF Cuneiform1.00infobox
CuneiformUnicode rangeU+12400 to U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation1.00infobox
Cuneiformis alogo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East0.90text
Cuneiformis aearliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia0.90text
Cuneiformis aadaptation of Old Assyrian cuneiform to write the Hittite language that emerged c0.90text

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