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

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This is my chapter (Chapter 11 "Sumerian Grammar for Babylonians") in ISACMP 1 "Back to School in Babylonia. The reader contains 44 texts ranging from royal inscriptions to legal and economic documents, though it does not include any literary texts.However, all things considered get this if you’re interested in Sumerian language as there are vanishingly few resources on the language itself and even less for beginners. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Mittermayer’s work collects 480 cuneiform signs from literary texts of the Old Babylonian period, supplemented with quotations and commentary. Foxvog has published his Introduction to Sumerian Grammar [CDLI; available online] directly to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) preprints collection.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. The project has catalogued, photographed, and digitized more than 320,000 artifacts, nearly half of which include Sumerian text. But for those committed to diving directly into Sumerian, Konstantopoulos notes the following resources. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.

But if you truly are committed to practice writing out signs, one book stands out as an attempt to overcome the artifice—D. She is President and co-founder of the nonprofit, Humans Against Poor Scholarship, and co-host of the Digital Hammurabi YouTube channel and podcast. Exercises written in cuneiform mean that you start reading authentic Sumerian right from the start, building up to translating ancient cuneiform inscriptions from drawings and photographs!Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. One advantage of the ePSD is that the site is keyed to other online Sumerian texts, such as UCLA’s Cuneiform Digital Library [available online] and Oxford’s Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ( ETCSL) [available online]. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. It explains the functioning of Sumerian grammar in 16 lessons, illustrated with more than 500 fully glossed examples. It's extremely niche topic and I can guarantee that you'll have absolutely no use for this knowledge[1], but if you're into learning exotic languages, this can be fun.