What is cuneiform ?can you describe the cuneiform.
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- Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form its signs.
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Cuneiform , is a system of writing that was used in the ancient middle east which was first developed by the ancient sumerians of the Mesopotamian civilization. It is also considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk
The name comes from the Latin word cuneus for 'wedge' owing to the wedge-shaped style of writing. In cuneiform, a carefully cut writing implement known as a stylus is pressed into soft clay to produce wedge-like impressions that represent word-signs (pictographs) and, later, phonograms or `word-concepts' (closer to a modern-day understanding of a `word'). All of the great Mesopotamian civilizations used cuneiform until it was abandoned in favour of the alphabetic script at some point after 100 BCE, including: