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Sumerian

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Sumerian
/sooh mear"ee euhn, -mer"-/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to Sumer, its people, or their language.
n.
2. a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
3. a language of unknown affinities that was the language of the Sumerians and had, in the late 4th and 3rd millenniums B.C., a well-developed literature that is preserved in pictographic and cuneiform writing and represents the world's oldest extant written documents.
[1870-75; SUMER + -IAN]

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