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Cuneiform script was used to write several languages in the ancient Near East, including Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian. Each language had its own set of cuneiform signs and variations in the script.
Sumerians used clay tablets and a reed stylus to produce cuneiform writing. The stylus created wedge-shaped impressions on the soft clay, forming the distinctive script of cuneiform.
In cuneiform script, the name Michelle would be spelled out phonetically using the available Sumerian or Akkadian characters that best approximate the sounds of the name. Cuneiform writing system was primarily used for recording the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, so a direct translation of the name "Michelle" might not exist.
No, not all Sumerians learned cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was primarily used by scribes and scholars who underwent special training to learn the complex script. The average Sumerian citizen likely did not have the same level of education or need to learn cuneiform.
Egyptian - hieroglyphics, Phoenician - alphabet, Sumerian - cuneiform, Akkadian - cuneiform.
The Sumerians were the first to devise a script. This is knew as the cuneiform script. This in the from of pictographs signs, symbols and pictures which denoted objects. Henry Rawlinson deciphered the Sumerian script......
Cuneiform script was used to write several languages in the ancient Near East, including Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian. Each language had its own set of cuneiform signs and variations in the script.
The SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION developed cuneiform as a method of transcribing concepts.
Sumerians used clay tablets and a reed stylus to produce cuneiform writing. The stylus created wedge-shaped impressions on the soft clay, forming the distinctive script of cuneiform.
cuneiform
In cuneiform script, the name Michelle would be spelled out phonetically using the available Sumerian or Akkadian characters that best approximate the sounds of the name. Cuneiform writing system was primarily used for recording the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, so a direct translation of the name "Michelle" might not exist.
There was really only one form of Sumerian writing, the cuneiform script made out of various combinations of wedge shapes (Latin cuneus, "wedge'). This system developed out a combination of arbitrary shapes impressed in clay, and pictures drawn with a reed stylus. A history of the script can be found at ancientscripts.com (see related link below).
Cuneiform are wedded shape
No, not all Sumerians learned cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was primarily used by scribes and scholars who underwent special training to learn the complex script. The average Sumerian citizen likely did not have the same level of education or need to learn cuneiform.
cuneiform
It was called cuneiform.
Cuneiform are wedded shape