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How to pronounce cuneiform in English?

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Synonyms cuneal, wedge-shaped
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Has types babylonian
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The cuneiform script is adapted to Akkadian writing from the mid 3rd millennium.
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It certainly isn't the plot, which probably was first jotted down in cuneiform.
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They are written in Akkadian cuneiform which was the Lingua franca of the time.
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These included cuneiform tablets, stone tools and copper and bronze implements.
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Although cuneiform and pressed into clay, it was unrelated to Akkadian cuneiform.
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About 2600 BC cuneiform began to represent syllables of spoken Sumerian language.
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About 2600 BC cuneiform began to represent syllables of the Sumerian language.
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The individual objects on this map were already labelled, in a Sumerian cuneiform.
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A certain confusion exists in cuneiform literature between Ninurta and Nergal.
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  • Wedge-shaped: shaped like a wedge
  • An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
  • Of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
  • There are three cuneiform bones in the human foot: * the medial cuneiform
  • Cuneiform script (or) is the earliest known writing system in the world. Cuneiform writing emerged in the Sumerian civilization of southern Iraq around the 34th century BCE during the middle Uruk period, beginning as a pictographic system of writing. ...
  • In computer software, CuneiForm is an OCR tool. It was originally developed at Cognitive Technologies and, after a few years with no development, released as freeware on December 12, 2007. The kernel of OCR engine was released under the open source BSD license license at the beginning of April 2008.
  • As of version 5.2, Unicode assigns to the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script the following two blocks: * U+12000--U+1236E Cuneiform (879 characters) * U+12400--U+12473 Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (103 characters) These are in the in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
  • An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets; A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform ...
  • One of the earliest forms of writing. It consisted of wedge shaped symbols usually imprinted in clay. Used throughout ancient Mesopotamia.