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

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Each lesson ends with a series of tasks; a solution key to selected exercises can be found at the end of the volume.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. This book was printed in 1984 and now is some outdated in any few things but still is a reference book among Sumeriologist and Assyriologist who wants to learn Sumerian. When asked to recommend a dictionary for Sumerian students, Konstantopoulos hesitated, saying that there is not yet a complete, comprehensive work in the style of the The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ( CAD) [Oriental Institute of Chicago; Ref 4 PJ3525 .

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. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic 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 Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger 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 Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.Joshua lives and works in southern Maryland, and spends his free time wrangling his 5 children, and sharing evidence-based information about the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible with his online communities. 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]. The ETCSL presents transliterations and English translations of Sumerian literary texts as well as bibliography and source information. As time passed characters acquired a further phoenetic connotation, initially from the sound of Sumerian words which translated the various connotations of a sign. Mittermayer’s work collects 480 cuneiform signs from literary texts of the Old Babylonian period, supplemented with quotations and commentary.