Sumerian language: References & Edit History
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Arno Poebel, Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik (1923), partly out of date, but still the only full grammar of Sumerian in all its stages; Adam Falkenstein, Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von Lagaš, 2 vol. (1949–50), a very thorough grammar of the New Sumerian dialect, and Das Sumerische (1959), a very brief but comprehensive survey of the Sumerian language; Cyril J. Gadd, Sumerian Reading Book (1924), outdated but the only grammatical tool in English; Samuel N. Kramer, The Sumerians (1963), provides a general introduction to Sumerian civilization.
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| Modified link of Web site: University of Pennsylvania - Nimrud : Materialities of Assyrian Knowledge Production - The Sumerian language. | Aug 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact (PDF). | Jul 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archeology - The 'Sumerian Problem'Evidence of the Confusion of Languages? | Jun 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Written Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia Knowledge, ignorance, and reasonable guesses (PDF). | Mar 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: UC Berkeley Open Book Publishing - The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition - Sumerian. | Sep 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language. | Jan 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Language Gulper - Sumerian Language. | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Oxford - The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature - Sumerian language. | Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - Nimrud : Materialities of Assyrian Knowledge Production - The Sumerian language. | May 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Sumerian Tablets: A Deeper Understanding of the Oldest Known Written Language. | Feb 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Sumerian Language. | Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 20, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Omniglot - Sumerian. | Mar 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Omniglot - Sumerian. | Mar 06, 2013 | ||
| Added new Web site: Ancient Scripts - Sumerian. | Feb 05, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: World History International - Sumerian Language. | Feb 05, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Halexandria - Sumerian. | Feb 05, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Jul 26, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Oct 19, 1998 |
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