Linguistics & Languages · Writing Systems

Cuneiform

The wedge-shaped writing of ancient Mesopotamia, pressed into clay with a reed stylus and used for Sumerian, Akkadian, and their neighbours over three thousand years.

Languages Written in This Script

The Codex Gigas, the largest surviving medieval illuminated manuscript

Extinct Sumerian The sacred and scholarly language of ancient Mesopotamia, preserved in cuneiform long after it ceased to be spoken. Language isolate

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