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In 2017, a second version of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary was released, called ePSD2. [8] The new version of the dictionary includes listings of over 12,000 Sumerian words, phrases and names, occurring in almost 100,000 distinct forms a total of over 2.27 million times. The corpus covers about 100,000 of the 134,000+ known Sumerian texts.
Ea A = nâqu, a sign list with the format: Sumerian gloss–Sumerian sign–Akkadian translation which eventually grew to 8-tablets and a line-count of around 2,400 by the Neo-Babylonian period[MSL XIV [p 2] [14] Ebla syllabaries, vocabulary and sign list, c. 2400 BC, one of the syllabories is an adaption of LU A to local Syrian vernacular
god gal-gal-g̃u-ene-ra great- REDUP - 1. POSS - PL. AN - DAT dig̃ir gal-gal-g̃u-ene-ra god great-REDUP-1.POSS-PL.AN-DAT "for my great gods" The possessive, plural and case markers are traditionally referred to as "suffixes", but have recently also been described as enclitics or postpositions. Gender The two genders have been variously called animate and inanimate, [144] human and non-human ...
It consists of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists ordered by topic. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The canonical version extends to 24 tablets, and contains almost 10,000 words. [ 5 ] The conventional title is the first gloss, ur 5 -ra and ḫubullu meaning "interest-bearing debt" in Sumerian and Akkadian, respectively.
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Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC.. Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including the Ur III (and earlier, ED III cuneiform of literature such as the Barton Cylinder) are not included due to extreme complexity of arranging them consistently and unequivocally by the shape of their signs; [1] see Early Dynastic Cuneiform ...
A number of other, less frequently attested lists could be learned at this point: the body-part list Ugu-mu; a list of legal phrases (an early version of the list known as ana ittišu); a list of deities called the Nippur God list; the Old Babylonian version of a list of professions called lu 2-azlag 2 = ašlāku; and a list of diseases.
Sumerian poems demonstrate basic elements of poetry, including lines, imagery, and metaphor. Humans, gods, talking animals, and inanimate objects were all incorporated as characters. Humans, gods, talking animals, and inanimate objects were all incorporated as characters.