How the Sumerians started writing?
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The Sumerians are an ancient civilization. They began writing about around 3,300 B.C. Sumerian cuneiform is the earliest known form of writing. Originally the Sumerians made tokens to represent items. The symbols became stylized over time and eventually evolved into a complete writing system.Cuneiform writing was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet during the Neo-Assyrian Empire. By about 2,800 BC some of the Sumerian glyphs were being used to represents sounds using the rebus principle.
The Sumerians were one of the earliest societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. Eventually, all of these diverse writing systems.It is actually possible to trace the long road of the invention of the Sumerian writing system. For 5000 years before the appearance of writing in Mesopotamia, there were small clay objects in abstract shapes, called clay tokens, that were apparently used for counting agricultural and manufactured goods.
Cuneiform, the script language of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia, consists of small, repetitive impressed characters that look more like wedge-shape footprints than what we recognize as writing. Cuneiform appears on baked clay or mud tablets that range in color from bone white to chocolate to charcoal. Each cuneiform sign consists of one or more wedge-shaped impressions that are made with three basic marks. Cuneiform symbols were made by scribes who used a stylus.
The Sumerians were one of the earliest societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. Eventually, all of these diverse writing systems.It is actually possible to trace the long road of the invention of the Sumerian writing system. For 5000 years before the appearance of writing in Mesopotamia, there were small clay objects in abstract shapes, called clay tokens, that were apparently used for counting agricultural and manufactured goods.
Cuneiform, the script language of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia, consists of small, repetitive impressed characters that look more like wedge-shape footprints than what we recognize as writing. Cuneiform appears on baked clay or mud tablets that range in color from bone white to chocolate to charcoal. Each cuneiform sign consists of one or more wedge-shaped impressions that are made with three basic marks. Cuneiform symbols were made by scribes who used a stylus.
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