adj.
Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its people, language, or culture.
n.
- A member of an ancient people, probably of non-Semitic origin, who established a nation of city-states in Sumer in the fourth millennium B.C. that is one of the earliest known historic civilizations.
- The language of the Sumerians, of no known linguistic affiliation.
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