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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In detail, the following is the situation regarding the languages of ancient Asia Minor and Mesopotamia:
Non-Indo-European language
Apart from the Semitic languages and Egyptian, at least five isolated languages are ascribable to that period in which the Sumerians and Egyptians had already invented their script. All five languages are recorded in the so-called Akkadian cuneiform, a syllabic script which the Sumerians had developed from their picture-writing.
1 For the bibliography see Handbuch der Orientalistik, Altkleinasiatische Sprachen, Leiden, 1969, 119 ff.Google Scholar; Kammenhuber, A., Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, XXIV, 1968, 55–123Google Scholar; Friedrich, J., Kammenhuber, A., Hethitisches Wörterbuch, 2nd ed., Heidelberg, 1975.Google Scholar
2 cf. also Hoffmann, K., “Das Kategoriensystem des indogermanischen Verbums”, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, XXVIII, 1970, 19–41.Google Scholar