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Cuneiform was used to write several languages in the ancient Near East, including Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian. Overall, cuneiform was used to write more than a dozen languages.

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What are he five original written languages?

Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Harrapan, Mayan and Chinese.


How many characters does cuneiform have?

Cuneiform has over 1,000 individual characters that make up its script, including logograms, syllabic signs, and determinatives. Each character represents a morpheme or a combination of sounds in the Sumerian, Akkadian, or other languages written in cuneiform.


How did Babylonians keep records?

The Babylonians used cuneiform to write the Akkadian and Babylonian Languages. Cuneiform tablets were written by pressing reed styluses to clay blocks and then left to harden.


What is Latin in cuneiform?

Latin is a language that originated in ancient Rome and is written using the Latin alphabet, not in cuneiform, which is a system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia. Cuneiform was used to write languages like Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian, but not Latin.


What languages came before cuneiform?

Before cuneiform, the primary languages were primarily oral and did not have a written form. However, the earliest known writing systems, such as the proto-writing found in the Vinča culture and the Jiahu symbols in China, emerged around 7000-5000 BCE. These systems were precursors to more developed scripts but were not fully-fledged languages like those that would later use cuneiform. Cuneiform itself, developed by the Sumerians around 3200 BCE, marked a significant advancement in written communication.


How did cuneiform evolve over time?

Like many ancient languages, cuneiform actually began as a series of pictures that were later drawn using a series of wedges, where they get their name, cuneiform, from Latin cunei-meaning "wedge."


How many symbols are in the cuneiform?

There are around 1,000 unique cuneiform symbols that were used in ancient Mesopotamia for writing various languages like Sumerian and Akkadian.


How did Sir Henry Rawlinson discover cuneiform?

The Rosetta Stone written in three languages including hierglyphics, demotic (cunieform) and Greek.


How is Sumerian writing different from cuneiform?

Cuneiform writing was invented by the Sumerians for writing their own language, but it ended up being adapted to write many other languages as well, including Akkadian, Elamite, Eblaite and Old Persian. Consequently there are many cuneiform texts that are not Sumerian.


Where was cuneiform developed?

Cuneiform was the written language of the Sumerians.


What kind of written language did the sumerians use?

Cuneiform.


Who mad cuneiform'?

Mesopotamians made cuneiform as their written language