cunéiforme

Key facts

Writing system.type

Logographic

Writing system.typedesc

and syllabary

Writing system.languages

Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Urartian, Palaic, Old Aramaic, Ugaritic

Writing system.direction

left-to-right

Writing system.region

Sumer

Writing system.fam1

Proto-cuneiform (Proto-writing)

Writing system.children

None; influenced the shape of Ugaritic and

Writing system.iso15924

Xsux

Writing system.sample

Xerxes_Cuneiform_Van.JPG

Writing system.caption

A trilingual cuneiform inscription of Xerxes I at Van Fortress in Turkey, an Achaemenid royal inscription written in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian forms of cuneiform

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