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Name: Sumerian Type: Language Code: sux Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Isolates & Small Families Parent Subgroup: Asian Language Isolate (asis) Child Dialects: Eme-ĝir [emeŋir]; Standard Sumerian (sux-gir) Eme-sal; Women's Sumerian (sux-sal) Brief Description: An ancient language of S. Iraq. Probably the first written language.the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), since at least the 4th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC, Akkadian borrowed heavily from this language, as well as converging with it syntactically, morphologically, and phonologically. The language continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language until the 1st century AD.

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Linguist List Status: Extinct