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The Sumerian language is the earliest known written language... The Life and Death of the Sumerian Language in Comparative Perspective...
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Sumer
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Adab
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native tongue
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split ergative
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nominative-accusative language
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aspect
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ergative-absolutive
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indicative mood
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split ergativity
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transitive
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intransitive
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grammatical genders
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animate
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aspects
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cases
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Igor M. Diakonoff
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Sumerian cuneiform
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Lagash
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Urukagina
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Ngirsu
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late Uruk
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Jemdet Nasr
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Sargonian
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Sumerian Renaissance
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Transliterating cuneiform languages
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Akkadian language
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Edward Hincks
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consonantal forms
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Nippur
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Larsa
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Uruk
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Julius Oppert
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Turanian
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agglutinative
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Akkadian
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1869
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Akkad
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Sumer
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Paul Haupt
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Ernest de Sarzec
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Ngirsu
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Lagash
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Nippur
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orientalist
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Joseph Halévy
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secret code
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cryptolect
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Friedrich Delitzsch
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Stephen Langdon
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Samuel Noah Kramer
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Miguel Civil
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Oriental Institute
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malt
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Benno Landsberger
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Philadelphia
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Jena
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agglutinative
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split ergative
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Akkadian
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I.M. Diakonoff
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stop consonants
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places of articulation
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voicing
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aspiration
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glottalization
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voiceless bilabial plosive
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voiced bilabial plosive
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voiceless alveolar plosive
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voiced alveolar plosive
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voiceless velar plosive
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voiced velar plosive
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phoneme
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alveolar tap
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affricate
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nasal consonants
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bilabial nasal
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alveolar nasal
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velar nasal
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labiovelar
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nasal
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nasalized
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labiovelar
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sibilants
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voiceless alveolar fricative
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voiced alveolar affricate
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voiceless postalveolar fricative
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voiceless postalveolar fricative
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citation needed
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citation needed
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velar
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fricative
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ḫ
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liquid consonants
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lateral consonant
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rhotic consonant
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genitive case
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liaison
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glottal fricative
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glottal stop
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vowel contraction
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vowel harmony
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vowel height
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ATR
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Sargonic
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Lagash
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assimilation
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vowel contraction
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hiatus
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noun
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grammatical genders
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animate and inanimate
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adjective
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modifiers
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noun phrase
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suffixes
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enclitics
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postpositions
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absolutive
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ergative
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genitive
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equative
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terminative
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comitative
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locative
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ablative
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prepositional
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modified
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personal pronouns
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Chinese box
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finite verb
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moods
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agrees
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aspect
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Akkadian
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passive
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middle voice
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affixes
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prefixes
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suffixes
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indicative
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negative
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cohortative
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precative
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prospective
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finite verb
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indicative mood
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ED
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Lagash
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agent
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focus
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verb valency
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voice
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ventive
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prothetic
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stative
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middle voice
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future
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suppletive
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iterativity
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Latin gerundive
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Latin
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copula verb
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imperative mood
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Subject Object Verb
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topicality
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subordination
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the nominalization of a verb
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"prepositional" constructions
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Flood
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Subordinating conjunctions
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coordinating conjunction
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compound verbs
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idiomatic
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causative
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psycholinguistic
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Languages portal
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List of languages by first written accounts
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ISBN 90-04-12608-2
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ISBN 87-500-3654-8
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ISBN 37-2780-869-1
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ISBN 88-7653-610-8
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ISBN 1845532295
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ISBN 0978642910
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