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Emesal in Early Dynastic Sumerian? What is the UD.GAL.NUN-Orthography?

Bendt Alster, 1982.

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Acta Sumerologica 4, pp. 1-6. Asks whether the UD.GAL.NUN sign substitutions of the Fara and Abu Salabikh literary texts hide an early form of the Emesal dialect; one of the competing explanations of that orthography. Used for the UD.GAL.NUN problem.

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Bendt Alster (1982). Emesal in Early Dynastic Sumerian? What is the UD.GAL.NUN-Orthography?. https://ocb.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00066050
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