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Also known as Sumero-Akkadia cuneiform, cuneiform script, cuneiform writing, arrow-headed characters, Xsux

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions () which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

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Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system, developed in ancient Mesopotamia to record the Sumerian language, and it features distinctive wedge-shaped marks that give it its name. This writing system remained in active use for thousands of years, from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC, and was adapted to write several different languages across the ancient Near East.

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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