[1] The term 'Sumerian' applies to speakers of the Sumerian language. Akkadian, Phoenician, Egyptian >It is believed that Jesus (on the cross) said, Eli eli lama shabatani ( I >think this to be Aramaic) in Hebrew it would be Eli Eli lama azaftani, There are no silent syllables in Sumerian. (In a similar manner, the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs was the bilingual Rosetta stone and Jean-François Champollion's transcription in 1822.) There have been many failed attempts to connect Sumerian to other language families. Sumerian Dictionary Every letter must be pronounced. >How different are the following languages. The Sumerian language is generally regarded as a language isolate in linguistics because it belongs to no known language family; Akkadian belongs to the Afro-Asiatic languages. Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. The earliest proof that the written Sumerian language existed was the Kish Tablet , which was found in Iraq. The oldest known written language is Sumerian, and it dates back to at least 3500 BC. The key to reading logosyllabic cuneiform came from the Behistun inscription, a trilingual cuneiform inscription written in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian. Sumerian is a different language family. Vowels= a as in "father" e as in "whey" i as in "Antique" o as in "boat" (but rarely found) u as in "Zulu" Consonants= Most consonants are basically the same as in English. Hence, "KIA" is pronounced "KEE=ya"; "KAIMANU" is pronounced "ka=ee=MAH=nu". Little is known about when Sumerian-speaking people arrived in southern Mesopotamia, assuming they did not originate there. Proto-Afroasiatic) was spoken, are … The Sumerian language is generally regarded as a language isolate in linguistics because it belongs to no known language family; Akkadian, by contrast, belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. Sumerian is older than Egyptian, but it only lasted as a spoken language until around 2000 BC, when it was replaced by another language, called Akkadian. Sumerian is a language isolate. Either way, from a very early period a multilingual environment existed in southern Mesopotamia, which included languages like Sumerian, an early form of Akkadian, other Semitic languages, and Hurrian.

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