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Do the roughly 440 personal names in the archaic texts follow Sumerian, Semitic or some other naming pattern?

Asked 31 Oct 2026 by ·Part of What language, if any, do the proto-cuneiform texts record?·0 answers·0·0 following
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Englund compiled about 440 probable slave names from the archaic texts and found no divine elements and almost none of the ur- and amar- patterns that dominate later Sumerian names⁠[1]. The comparison has not been made against Semitic or other patterns, and no null model has been fitted.

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