# Abraham Hendrik Jagersma 2010: A descriptive grammar of Sumerian

> Abraham Hendrik Jagersma, 2010. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Leiden University doctoral thesis, 4 November 2010, open access in the Leiden…

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# A descriptive grammar of Sumerian

Abraham Hendrik Jagersma, 2010.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Thesis0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Every genetic affiliation proposed for Sumerian (Indo-European, Dravidian, Uralic, Turkic, Austroasiatic…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYVK2TPHT/every-genetic-affiliation-proposed-for-sumerian-indo)

Evidence

EVD

[ePSD2 lists about 16,000 Sumerian words in 3.4 million instances, while several phonemes and the verbal prefix system…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEEB27SHD8S/epsd2-lists-about-16-000-sumerian-words-in-3-4-million)

Evidence

EVD

[Cuneiform literacy ends in the first century AD; Sumerian had survived as a learned language for two thousand years after it ceased to be spoken](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDP541NTMF/cuneiform-literacy-ends-in-the-first-century-ad-sumerian-had)

EVT

[Bram Jagersma](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDNGNN77HF/bram-jagersma)

FIG

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

The mystery article

MYS

[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)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Abraham Hendrik Jagersma (2010). A descriptive grammar of Sumerian. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/16107
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