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Does anyone understand cuneiform

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Which cuneiform are you refering to? Akkadian? Babylonian? Sumerian? Hittite? Old Persian? Ugaritic?

Hittite cuneiform is kind of an anomaly because it is Indo-European language rather than Semitic.

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