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Cuneiform, from the Latin cuneus, meaning "wedge," is the term applied to a mode of writing which used a wedge-shaped stylus to make impressions on a clay surface, and also on stone, metal, and wax. Most of the clay tablets were sun-baked, making surviving tablets very fragile. ... EXERCISE: WRITE YOUR NAME IN CUNEIFORM!
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history.missouristate.edu/jchuchiak/HST%20101-Lecture%2...
history.missouristate.edu/jchuchiak/HST%20101-Lecture%202cuneiform_writing.htm
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Used to write: ... The Akkadian cuneiform script was adapted from Sumerian cuneiform in about 2350 BC. At the same time, many Sumerian words were borrowed into Akkadian, and Sumerian logograms were given both Sumerian and Akkadian readings.
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www.omniglot.com/writing/akkadian.htm
www.omniglot.com/writing/akkadian.htm
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Eventually, all of these diverse writing systems, which encompass both logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic, and syllabic systems, became known as cuneiform. ... So, to write "life", the ancient Sumerians wrote the sign for "arrow". Eventually, the logogram for "arrow" became a syllabogram to represent the sound /ti/.
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www.ancientscripts.com/sumerian.html
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The term "cuneiform" is very deceptive, in that it tricks people into thinking that it's some type of writing system. The truth is that cuneiform denotes not one but several kinds of writing systems, ... So to write five sheep, the scribe impress a wedge five times, and then make the sign for sheep.
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www.ancientscripts.com/cuneiform.html
www.ancientscripts.com/cuneiform.html
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Here is a detail picture of me actually writing. Yeah, it's fuzzy. You try to write cuneiform on wet clay and take a digital photograph at the same time!
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www.solstation.com/jaymin/tablets.htm
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Only the elite in Mesopotamia were literate and could read and write in cuneiform. Generally, the priests had this knowledge. Priests ruled Mesopotamia at that time. Information was normally passed word-of-mouth and only the information the priests thought important was written in clay slabs.
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www.sunysuffolk.edu/~maria29/cuneiform.html
www.sunysuffolk.edu/~maria29/cuneiform.html
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The ancient Sumerians were the first of the ancient societies (of Mesopotamia) to develop cuneiform writing. It began as a system to log the inventory of the food held in the storage houses of the temples. Clay tablets were the most common "back drop" used for imprints of the cuneiform style writing.
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www.sunysuffolk.edu/~power05/ch2.htm
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Over thousands of years, Mesopotamian scribes recorded daily events, trade, astronomy, and literature on clay tablets. Cuneiform was used by people throughout the ancient Near East to write several different languages.
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www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html
www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html
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Fifteen hundred cuneiform symbols were reduced in the next thousand years to about seven hundred, but it did not become alphabetic until about 1300 BC. ... The different homophones (and the different cuneiform signs that denote them) are marked with different numbers by convention, 2 and 3 being replaced by acute accent...
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www.crystalinks.com/sumerlanguage.html
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