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The Sumerians used a script called "Cuneiform" pronounced qew-nay-i-form. Cuneiform documents were impressed on wet clay by means of a blunt reed and the impressions left by the reed were wedge shaped, hence the name cuneiform from the Latin term cuneus, meaning "wedge").

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