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Cuneiform writing has been used in several languages, and was in use for about 3,000 years, from about 3100 BCE until about year 0. Cuneiform writing originated in southern Mesopotamia, and was created in the Sumerian culture, in order to write in the Sumerian language.
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The earliest writing was based on pictograms. Pictograms were used to communicate basic information about crops and taxes. ... Over time, the need for writing changed and the signs developed into a script we call cuneiform.
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Pictograms were the basis of cuneiform writing, but in time cuneiform became abstract representations of the pictograms. (See Figure 1) ; Cuneiform differs from our own alphabet, although both are abstract representations.
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www.sunysuffolk.edu/~maria29/cuneiform.html
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Cuneiform script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cuneiform script (pronounced /kjuːˈniː.ɨfɔrm/ kew- NEE -i-form or /ˈkjuːnɨfɔrm/ KEW -ni-form ) is the earliest known writing system in the world. Cuneiform writing ...
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Cuneiform writing was probably invented by the Sumerians, but was subsequently adapted for writing in the Akkadian language, of which Babylonian and Assyrian are dialects. ... EXAMPLES OF CUNEIFORM WRITING...
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The cuneiform writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries, through several stages of evolution, from the 34th century BC down to the 1st century AD.[7] It was completely replaced by alphabetic writing in the course of the Roman era and has left behind no descendant systems in continued use.
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cuneiform writing (click to enlarge) Examples illustrating the evolution of cuneiform writing. (credit: © Merriam-Webster Inc.) System of writing ... For more information on cuneiform writing, visit Britannica.com.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on cuneiform (writing system), system of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots meaning “wedge-shaped”, has been the modern designation from the early 18th century onward. ... Sumerian writing (cuneiform)
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