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Answered by hockey7
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Cuneiform, or Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform,was one of the earliest systems of writing, invented by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The term cuneiform comes from cuneus, Latin for "wedge".

Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC (the Uruk IV period) to convey the Sumerian language, which was a language isolate, cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use grew smaller (Hittite cuneiform). The system consists of a combination of logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic, and syllabic signs.

Type

Logographic and syllabary.

Languages

Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hattic, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian, Urartian, Old Persian.

Created

around 3200 BC[1].

Time period

c. 31st century BC to 2nd century AD.

Parent systems

(Proto-writing).

Cuneiform

Child systems

None; influenced shape of Ugaritic; apparently inspired Old Persian

Direction

Left-to-right

ISO 15924

Xsux, 020

Unicode alias

Cuneiform

Unicode range

U+12000 to U+123FF Cuneiform

U+12400 to U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation

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