Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners.

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I’ve had this book for about a year now, going back to it when ever I suddenly become reinvested in Sumerian civilisation, and can say that it is great at teaching someone a basic understanding of Sumerian language, with attention to the un-English eccentricities of Sumerian language.

There are about 600 common Sumerian characters, so in this respect at least Sumerian is easier than Chinese. As time passed characters acquired a further phoenetic connotation, initially from the sound of Sumerian words which translated the various connotations of a sign. Sumerian marks possession with an /ak/ after the word, and marks the subject of a transitive sentence with the suffix /e/. I can recommend Konrad Volk’s A Sumerian Chrestomathy, the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, and the Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary as resources for beginners.

But perhaps the best introduction at this point to the tablets themselves through the CDLI which places artifact images and their associated text together in an open-access platform. If you have learned at least one other ancient language, or taken a course in linguistics, you could also try Gábor Zólyomi, An Introduction to the Grammar of Sumerian (Eötvös University Press, 2017) http://www. I am not interested in a deep knowledge: I just want to get a feeling for what Sumerian was like, both as a language and as a writing system.

and how in the scribe’s initial repetition she heard a human voice that remained with us across millennia. This book has not any word in cuneiform script, is a transliterated grammar but with numerous examples. It not only synthesizes the results of recent scholarship but introduces original insights on many important questions. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. One might guess that this is “to (/ra/) the house (e2) of the gish gigir” but in fact it is “the house of (/a(k)/) the gish gigir,” the house of the chariot.Of particular interest to language learners is the second epic presented here, “Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta,” which recounts both a proto-Tower of Babel tale of language interaction and the mythical invention of writing.

hu/en/kiadvanyok/english-gabor-zolyomi-an-introduction-to-the-grammar-of-sumerian/ Zólyomi is a textbook and free, but written for people who already know a lot of technical jargon from linguistics. This volume is a comprehensive anthology of extant Sumerian—though not as comprehensive as the ETCSL from which it is drawn. Mittermayer’s work collects 480 cuneiform signs from literary texts of the Old Babylonian period, supplemented with quotations and commentary.Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U. Additional context on the materiality of Sumerian and its art historical context can be found from the early chapters in Z. Without wasting time, you're immediately introduced to all the important details to make sense of the general grammar, sentence structure, the writing system (cuneiform) and basic vocabulary. B. Miller’s An Akkadian Handbook: Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List [Eisenbrauns; Ref 4 PJ3251 .

If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. As you are likely aware, the Sumerian language is poorly understood and there's plenty of disagreement among Sumerologists. F55 2015], which in addition to its efficient overview to the script is also beautifully illustrated by photographs of the British Museum’s collection. Sumerian is written in cuneiform, a script composed of wedge-shaped signs formed by impressing moist clay tablets with the sharpened end of a reed stylus.This lets the reader identify the original character, because some words which were pronounced the same were written with different characters. This textbook provides an introduction to the grammar of Sumerian, one of the oldest documented languages in the world.