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SUMERIEN [2 records]

Record 1 1996-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

An inhabitant of Sumer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
OBS

Habitant de Sumer, une région correspondant à la Basse-Mésopotamie, en bordure du golfe Persique.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language of unknown affinities that was the language of the Sumerians and had, in the late 4th and 3rd millenniums B.C., a well-developed literature that is preserved in pictographic and cuneiform writing and represents the world's oldest existant written documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

La plus ancienne langue écrite qui fut parlée dans le sud de la Mésopotamie pendant le III millénaire. On n'a pu démontrer aucune affinité génétique entre le sumérien et une autre langue connue.

Spanish

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