How to pronounce“sumerian”in English
Their writing system is known as cuneiform, and involved pressing a stylus into soft clay.
This Sumerian writing probably inspired the writing systems of other major Bronze Age civilizations around the Mediterranean, like the Egyptians with their hieroglyphs.
Those hieroglyphs inspired a writing system that eventually became the Phoenician writing system, which was adapted by the Greeks and ultimately became the Latin alphabet that English uses.
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Definitions of “sumerian”
Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.
“"Could be. Anyway, Sumerian culture—the society based on me—was another manifestation of the metavirus. Expect that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA."”
Of, from or pertaining to lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Šumer in Akkadian.
A person of Sumer.
A native of lower Babylonia, called Šumer in Akkadian.