SourcesUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianAbraham Hendrik Jagersma 2010
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Leiden University doctoral thesis, 4 November 2010, open access in the Leiden repository. The fullest modern descriptive grammar, based on texts of about 2500 to 2000 BC; treats Sumerian as an isolate and a remnant of pre-Semitic languages of the region; source for the reconstructed phoneme inventory, the lost consonants /h/, /ʔ/ and /j/, and the verbal prefix analysis. Used for what is and is not settled in Sumerian grammar.
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Abraham Hendrik Jagersma (2010). A descriptive grammar of Sumerian. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/16107
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