The Spread of ‘Heavenly Writing’
Cuneiform is the name of various writing systems in use throughout the Middle East from the end of the fourth millennium BCE until the late first century CE. The wedge-shaped writing was used to write ten to fifteen languages from various language families: Sumerian, Elamite, Eblaite, Old Assyrian,...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Linguistica Asiatica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/2602 |