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====== Writing and Language ====== | ====== Writing and Language ====== | ||
- | The [[cuneiform|cuneiform writing system]] | + | This is mainly legacy data. A new format has to be agreed that includes better links to tools. |
- | ===== Introduction | ||
+ | The [[cuneiform|cuneiform writing system]] is both the earliest writing system and among the longest in use in human history. Although conventionally dated to 3200 BC, radiocarbon dates seem to be moving the earliest form of the cuneiform script, known as [[proto-cuneiform]], | ||
=== Late Fourth Millennium and Early Third Millennium === | === Late Fourth Millennium and Early Third Millennium === | ||
- | [[Proto-cuneiform]] | ||
- | [[Proto-cuneiform | + | * [[Proto-cuneiform]] |
- | [[Proto-Elamite]] | + | * [[Proto-cuneiform Version II]] |
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+ | * [[Proto-Elamite]] | ||
=== Late Third Millennium === | === Late Third Millennium === | ||
- | [[Linear-Elamite]] | + | * [[Linear-Elamite]] |
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+ | * [[Old Akkadian]] | ||
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+ | * [[third Millennium Syrian cuneiform|Syria]] | ||
- | [[Old Akkadian]] | + | === Second and First Millennia === |
- | [[third Millennium Syrian cuneiform|Syria]] | ||
=== Background Information === | === Background Information === | ||
- | [[The decipherment of cuneiform]] | + | * [[The decipherment of cuneiform]] |
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+ | //Return to [[Encyclopedic Articles]]// |