# Rubio's 1999 examination of the words cited for a pre-Sumerian substratum found them to be Semitic loans, Sumerian…

> Rubio's 1999 examination of the words cited for a pre-Sumerian substratum found them to be Semitic loans, Sumerian compounds or otherwise explicable, and…

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# Rubio's 1999 examination of the words cited for a pre-Sumerian substratum found them to be Semitic loans, Sumerian…

Rubio's 1999 examination of the words cited for a pre-Sumerian substratum found them to be Semitic loans, Sumerian compounds or otherwise explicable, and is the standard reference against the substratum.

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## What it means

Key question[What about the Sumerian language itself is still unknown after 170 years of study?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3N5AH6P/what-about-the-sumerian-language-itself-is-still-unknown)

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Part of it[Does Sumerian have any demonstrable relative or substratum, or is it an isolate?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT86CFAB2/does-sumerian-have-any-demonstrable-relative-or-substratum)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Sumerian is an isolate](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEDWXDKH4P6/sumerian-is-an-isolate)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 1

[On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum"](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHR5BNVDP/on-the-alleged-pre-sumerian-substratum)

Rubio 1999

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Rubio's 1999 examination of the words cited for a pre-Sumerian substratum found them to be Semitic loans, Sumerian… [Evidence EVD0DEDYTNSDG8D]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYTNSDG8D
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