# Wikipedia contributors 2026: Sumerian language (Wikipedia article) > Wikipedia contributors, 2026. 10 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Used only as a map of the specialist literature: the list of rejected… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJNJFJGDJ/sumerian-language-wikipedia-article Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)Wikipedia contributors 2026 **0** # Sumerian language (Wikipedia article) Wikipedia contributors, 2026. **Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Webpage0 ## What it's used for here Used only as a map of the specialist literature: the list of rejected affiliation proposals (Indo-European, Dravidian, Uralic, Turkic, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan and macrofamily claims), the disputed phonemes (the consonant transcribed ř, the velar nasal, the vowel inventory, the lost /h/ and glottal stop), the statement that verbal morphology is hotly disputed, Deimel's count of 870 signs for Early Dynastic IIIa, and the dates of the main grammars (Thomsen 1984, Attinger 1993, Edzard 2003, Jagersma 2010). Each claim should be checked in those grammars. ## Cited by on this site 10 records [A creole origin for Sumerian has been proposed on a handful of typological features and has little support.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYZ9EZMZP/a-creole-origin-for-sumerian-has-been-proposed-on-a-handful) Evidence EVD [Alster raised the Emesal hypothesis in 1982 as a question; it has been neither confirmed nor refuted since, because…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYRQK753M/alster-raised-the-emesal-hypothesis-in-1982-as-a-question-it) Evidence EVD [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 [Mainstream opinion rejects Euphratic, chiefly because Indo-European is not expected in fourth-millennium Iraq and the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDYWEH6TNJ/mainstream-opinion-rejects-euphratic-chiefly-because-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 [The earliest proto-cuneiform tablets are written at Uruk; whether they record Sumerian is still disputed](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDP4E9X394/the-earliest-proto-cuneiform-tablets-are-written-at-uruk) EVT [The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform) The mystery article MYS [Do the proto-cuneiform tablets of Uruk (c. 3300 to 3000 BC) record the Sumerian language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT8HM7ER9/do-the-proto-cuneiform-tablets-of-uruk-c-3300-to-3000-bc) Question QST [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 ``` Wikipedia contributors (2026). Sumerian language (Wikipedia article). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language ``` [Find it at en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language) Key **SRC** 0DEDJNJFJGDJ Kind Webpage Rights The publisher's Kept 31 Oct 2026, for editors Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJNJFJGDJ/sumerian-language-wikipedia-article/csl.json)