Write a note on the cuneiform script
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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". Wikipedia
Parent systems: (Proto-writing): Cuneiform
Child systems: None; influenced shape of Ugaritic; apparently inspired Old Persian
Languages: Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hattic, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian, Urartian, Old Persian
Direction: Left-to-right
Created: around 3200 BC
Unicode range: U+12000 to U+123FF Cuneiform; U+12400 to U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
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