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Sumerian (Sumerian: ð’…´ð’‚ , romanized:Â
Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native language'') is the
language of
ancient Sumer. It is one of the
oldest attested languages,...
- romanized: ki-en-gi(-r), lit. ''country" + "lords" + "noble''), and
their language "
Emegir" (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: eme-g̃ir or 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi15). The
origin of the...
- word was UMUN,
which may
preserve an
archaic form of the word.
Earlier Emeg̃ir (the
standard dialect of Sumerian)
forms can be
postulated as *ewen or...
- Uruk and
founded the
Third Dynasty of Ur.
Although the
Sumerian language ("
Emegir") was
again made official,
Sumerian identity was
already in decline, as...
- had a
special language called Emesal,
distinct from the main language,
Emegir,
which was
spoken by both genders. The women's
language had a
distinct vocabulary...
-
occurs only in
Emesal laments, and the
hypothetical standard Sumerian ("
Emegir") form Nin-ašte is not attested. She
presumably at some
point came to be...
- the gods prayer; the poet
addresses Inanna It is
composed in the
standard emegir dialect of Sumerian. The
Lament for
Sumer and Ur The
Lament for Ur The Lament...
- is
identical with that
designated by the sign gi7 (gir) in
words such as
emegir, ur-gi7 ("dog"), dumu-gi7 ("noble", "free citizen") and in the personal...
