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The Hungarian Puli Introduction Index
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Oldest known A language, related as far as known, to no other tongue, was only properly deciphered in the nineteenth century. At this time it was found to be different from both Indo-European and the Semitic groups of language. Cuneiform symbols appear to have been reduced from a massive fifteen hundred, down to seven hundred over a thousand year period, but it did not become an alphabet until round 1300BC. In Shuruppak and Eresh, libraries were established by 2500BC, scribes were taught for document preparation for temple, state, legal and business transaction alike. Sons of the aristocracy and successful were sent to learn at schools, where discipline was strict and enforced by the use of a cane. Important words in Sumerian had their own cuneiform signs, the origins being pictographic.
Damp clay tablets, about 5cm wide and 2cms thick and a wedged shaped stylus were the writing materials used. Word-pictures were drawn on the tablets, the earliest know writings are believed to have come from Uruk about 3,300BC. Each word-picture represented an object. This type of Word-pictures from Uruk hence developed into the script now known as cuneiform. Gradually the pictures became ideographs (an object also meaning an idea), then phonograms representing sounds as well as a picture with a meaning. A syllabic script with hundreds of wedge-shaped signs, developed from pictures. Sumerians from southern Mesopotamia were the earliest to write in cuneiform, they assigned their own word-sounds to the symbols. The Assyrians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites, Hurrians and the Urartu from Anatolia followed. Until the fifth century BC, cuneiform was the language of politics, being replaced by the 22 letter Aramaic around 900BC.
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in human history, spoken in Mesopotamia (today, Iraq) throughout the third
millennium BC, Sumerian has survived as an esoteric written language until
cuneiform tradition vanished around the time of Christ.
was developed as a convenient way of recording records of such things as produce
and trading accounts. Later, it became widely used in the writing of literature
and historical documents.
