Sumerian Language
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Recent papers in Sumerian Language
Third-millennium Mesopotamia has provided an impressive quantity of sources for the study of ancient slavery, among them a collection of standards (the so-called Laws of Ur-Namma). Despite the volume of documents, Mesopotamian slavery... more
This paper presents a spatio-temporal data mining regarding the origin of the names of the 218 longest European rivers. The study shows that 35.2% of these river names originate in the Near East and Southern Caucasus. The study also... more
доклад в ИЛИ на Тронских чтениях 2016 г.
Since the very deciphering of the Sumerian language many pretty naïve attempts to attribute it to different language families have been made. It seems highly possible that Sumerian is rather close to Northeast Caucasian languages which... more
This paper briefly speculates that the Sumerian plural suffixes {eš} and {enē} derive from the archaic pluralizer {en}.
Presentation of the Sumerian legacy and heritage
Rich ethnobiological study of antiquity is usually constrained by the limitations of the archaeological remains of plants and animals. Sometimes, ongoing tradition, images and texts add a symbolic dimension. Such a study has been done of... more
The connection between Sumerian, Tamil, Japanese, Basque, Hungarian and the Easter Island.
This paper shows that the Sumerian Meluhha refers to Vedic Harappa and "Meluhha" is not "mleccha" as some scholars
think.
think.
The inhabitants of (southern) Mesopotamia are sometimes referred to as the “black-headed people” (saĝ-ge6) in Sumerian texts. This term came to be used also in Akkadian texts (translated as ṣalmāt qaqqadi), including in Neo-Assyrian... more
Per la prima volta in italiano una serie di testi sumeri con traduzione a fronte, introdotti e commentati con dizionario essenziale, note esplicative e riproduzioni grafiche
Interpretation of the Sumerian Hymn, based on the insight in the Sumerian religion as a form of Agama and Tantric tradition and on the understanding given by the Tamil version of the Sumerian text. Has included the description of... more
A Vegyes Nyelvi Tudástár-sorozat 1. füzete René Labat és Florence Malbran-Labat Manuel d’épigraphie akkadienne című, a sumer ékírásos jelek sumer és akkád nyelvi értelmezéseit összefoglaló kézikönyvének kiegészítéseként készült: a... more
#1. Neolithic technology, especially technology involving the use of reeds and weaving, was highly advanced long before the beginning of Sumerian civilizations. Many of these technologies were based on 'basket weaving technology' and... more
Il testo Dimenticate per secoli, le civiltà dell'antica Mesopotamia sono state riscoperte solo nell'Ottocento. Migliaia di tavolette di argilla incise in scrittura cuneiforme hanno permesso di portare alla luce una tradizione letteraria... more
The mutual influence of East-Semitic Akkadian and isolate Sumerian on each other is the first known and documented example of contact-induced language change. Speakers of East-Semitic and Sumerian may have been in contact for over a... more
Kültür, milletin DNA kodlarını içinde barındıran bir unsur, dil ise o milletin kimliğidir. Atatürk; Türk milletinin hafızasını canlı tutmak için Türk dili, tarihi ve kültürünün, bilimin ışığında derinlemesine araştırılıp incelenmesini... more
Sumerian language was used a medium to talk to the demons of the underworld. An artificial language so that the medicine man could talk to creatures beyond this world. Akkadian words were chopped to smaller pieces and then the newly... more
The 3 volume discusses the great public rituals: Vajapeya, Rajasuya, Horse Sacrifice and the Building of the Funeral Monument. Used texts: Veda Brahmana: Taittiriya, Aitareya, Satapatha, Jaiminiya, Sankhayana Samhita: Taittiriya,... more
Animals have a minor role / are poorly represented in Sumerian narratives, apart from their presence in specific literary genres such as disputes and the so-called “fables”, where they play a role in a moral pedagogic context. An... more
This book shows the meaning in Sumerian compound words of all of the unknown words and glossed words in the Book of Mormon, as well as looking at all other Book of Mormon names. Discussion is made of the target source languages of the... more
Excerpts from the book "The Temple, The Abomination and the Holy Place" regarding MFKZT/Monatomic Gold and these ancient bags/purses.
Data mining the Sumerian vocabulary reveals a dichotomy of the cognate associations of the Emeĝir and the Emesal dialects, with the former having mostly Dravidian and the later mostly Uralic cognates, indicating that Sumerian arose by the... more
A short, concise grammar of Sumerian describing the language in terms of morphological templates.