An ISAW Library blog post, Patrick J. Burns interviewing ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor Gina Konstantopoulos on grammars, sign lists and textual resources for learning Sumerian, and noting Sumerian's status as the oldest language readable from antiquity, with clay tablets surviving from as far back as roughly 3200 BCE.
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AuthorPatrick J. Burns (interviewing Gina Konstantopoulos)
PublisherNYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW)
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/getting-started-with-sumerian
Source TypeReference Work
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ISAW NYU: Getting Started with Sumerian
Patrick J. Burns (interviewing Gina Konstantopoulos), NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), 2018View the Source Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)
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