When did the Sumerians write their language?

Answer 1

This early type of writing practised by the Ancient Sumerians is called cuneiform or impressing onto clay tablets an alphabet as well as numbers or scores to record anything from a simple bill of sale, a record of what was bought or sold, inventories of storehouses and even marriage, dowry, and letters of communication. Clay was abundant and inexpensive. Papyrus developed later was a time consuming, labour. A dried and kiln fired clay tablet was a bit heavy, yet so durable they have been unearthed today intact. The soft clay was pressed into by a scribe who used a stylus typical shapes were triangle shaped at the end and the other end round or elongated. Errors could be easily wiped clear and edited with a soft wet cloth. Once the tablet was sealed by its preparer or signed, it was dried then fired as pottery was. A recorded event, a bill of sale an army captains orders could then be dispatched in a written form. Some tablets have been found to contain more than one persons recorded information almost resembling "scratch" paper notes reused until no space remains or like a card signed by more than one author. This early type of writing practised by the Ancient Sumerians is called cuneiform or impressing onto clay tablets an alphabet as well as numbers or scores to record anything from a simple bill of sale, a record of what was bought or sold, inventories of storehouses and even marriage, dowry, and letters of communication

Answer 2

The Sumerians began to develop cuneiform writing around 3500 BC, and used it to write their language until the death of spoken Sumerian roughly 1500 years later (scholars disagree as to the exact date). After that, Sumerian continued to be written, but it was no longer a matter of "Sumerians" writing "their language"; instead, Akkadian and Babylonian scribes, who spoke a Semitic language unrelated to Sumerian, studied and wrote Sumerian as a literary, scientific and religious language, much as Europeans would later use Latin. Sumerian continued in use until the abandonment of cuneiform writing in the first century AD.

Answer 3

Around 4000 BC, but it's up for debate. To be clear, Sumerians were not the first people to develop a form of writing. It's clear now that the Phoenicians developed writing before they did, and more recently it's evident that that was an off-shoot of Old South Arabian.

Answer 4

The Sumerians were among the 1st to develop the written word. They wrote using cunieform, which is a much more complex version of our modern alphabet involving more characters and much more complex shapes. It was mostly lines built on top of each other in various ways. This was written on clay tablets because the Egyptians had not discovered ways to make papyrus (the rough equivalent of paper) yet. It was chisseled into these tablets and mistakes were permanent. Other than that, the Sumerian written word was developed the only way possible: one word at a time in a probably slow and highly complicated process.

Answer 5

The written language in Sumer was SUmerian, a cuineform language (an example is arabic)

Answer 6

The first written language of the Sumerians was called cuneiform. and the Sumerians were one of the first civilizations to have a written language.

Answer 7

what was the language of teh writing called foe sumerians