# Gonzalo Rubio 1999: On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum"

> Gonzalo Rubio, 1999. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 51, pp. 1-16. Examines Landsberger's Proto-Euphratic and…

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# On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum"

Gonzalo Rubio, 1999.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Article0

## 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.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Rubio's 1999 examination of the words cited for a pre-Sumerian substratum found them to be Semitic loans, Sumerian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYTNSDG8D/rubios-1999-examination-of-the-words-cited-for-a-pre)

Evidence

EVD

[Rubio's item-by-item review left no coherent substrate vocabulary; most Sumerologists treat the substratum as unproven.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYYQGASG8/rubios-item-by-item-review-left-no-coherent-substrate)

Evidence

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[The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)

The mystery article

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[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)

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## Cite it

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