On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum"

Gonzalo Rubio, 1999.

Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianArticle0

What it's used for here

Journal of Cuneiform Studies 51, pp. 1-16. Examines Landsberger's Proto-Euphratic and Proto-Tigridian substratum words one by one and finds most are Semitic loans, Sumerian compounds or otherwise explicable, leaving no coherent substrate vocabulary. The standard reference against a pre-Sumerian substratum. DOI not shown on the journal page.

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

Evidence

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Rubio's item-by-item review left no coherent substrate vocabulary; most Sumerologists treat the substratum as unproven.

Evidence

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The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

The mystery article

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Does Sumerian have any demonstrable relative or substratum, or is it an isolate?

Question

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Cite it

Gonzalo Rubio (1999). On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum". https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jcs/1999/51

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