• Relating to Sumer, its ancient language, or the element it contributed to Babylonian civilization.

  （与）苏美尔（有关）的；（与）苏美尔语（有关）的；（与）早期非闪米特族（有关）的

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  • They were Sumerian and Akkadian words inscribed in parallel columns on clay tablets in cuneiform writing and were organized thematically.
  • However, by about this time Sumerian civilization, although highly developed, was near the end of its long run as an independent entity - one with identifiable social, organization, and linguistic characteristics.
  • As early as 3500 BC the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia was smoking fish; and the Chinese may well have been practising it equally early, though there is no evidence of this until later, when smoked foods are mentioned as normal items.
  • The Babylonian civilisation in Mesopotamia replaced the Sumerian civilisation and the Akkadian civilisation.
  • However, it is now known that Hammurabi's code had Sumerian predecessors, that these law codes were well-known in the society of Hammurabi's time, and that Hammurabi made extensive use of these earlier codes in formulating his code.
  • As a consequence, there was a revival of the Sumerian language, but only in religious and literary areas, as the language remained unimportant for administrative purposes.
  • Items from ancient Babylon and Nineveh, Sumerian statues, Assyrian reliefs and 5,000-year-old tablets bearing some of the earliest known writing have been taken or damaged whilst troops stood by and watched.
  • Hopefully you can see that these cults were an amalgamation of Hebrew monotheism and Egyptian and Sumerian polytheism.
  • Ancient tablets bearing Sumerian cuneiform, for example, feature descriptions of procedures for reckoning in base 60.
  • Over 4000 years ago the Sumerian merchants of Babylon and Nineveh recorded bills, receipts and promissory notes in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
  • Sitchin's claim to fame is announcing that he alone correctly reads ancient Sumerian clay tablets.
  • However, recently archaeologists have made some remarkable discoveries which shed light upon how abstract mathematical notions evolved amongst ancient Sumerian societies.
  • The dynasty founded by him was destroyed in about 2200, and after 2150 the kings of Ur not only re-established Sumerian sovereignty in Sumer but also conquered Akkad.
  • Arriving at what was once the Sumerian city of Uruk, she discovered the ancient mound crawling with natives hunting for treasure.
  • Stephenson seemed to think the Sumerian language was based on some kind of real correspondence to natural neurological patterns, and that this gave it the power to reprogram brains with each utterance.
  • Eminent scientists agree that calculations tend to confirm the accuracy of the ancient Sumerian creation story.
  • The Sumerian city-states are regarded as the onset of civilization.
  • Even the form of Hammurabi's code is identical to its Sumerian predecessors.
  • It was adopted from many Sumerian customs that had been around for a while before the Babylonians.
  • Born of spontaneous sketches, the collection was named Sumer for its links to ancient Sumerian culture.

• 1A member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia.

  苏美尔人（古代巴比伦王国非闪米特族的本地人）

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  • Therefore Mattessich deduced that the ancient Sumerians practiced a kind of double-entry record keeping some 5,000 years ago.
  • The Sumerians knew the site as Unu, the Akkadian speakers as Uruk.
  • Ancient Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians have also been hailed as the originators of palm-reading.
  • Although the Sumerians as people disappeared, their language and literature continued to influence the religion of their successors.
  • Anyone who has studied ancient history at high school can recall the Sumerians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians, and the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
  • Once the trade capital of East Africa, Zanzibar attracted Sumerians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Arabs, Chinese and Malays, giving the city a distinct culture and history from mainland Tanzania.
  • The Sumerians, Akkadians, Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians certainly enjoyed them.
  • The first victims of this were the indigenous Stone Age civilizations of the Americas, whose level of development was roughly on a par with that of the early Egyptians and Sumerians.
  • In contrast to what we might naively expect, Sumerian societies were not governed by all-powerful despotic kings whose word was law.
  • The Sumerians left us written instructions for the production of beer without hops, and similar gruel-like ales that must be sipped through a straw are still produced in some parts of Africa, and elsewhere.
  • Some of the most sophisticated ancient civilisations once thrived in Iraq, but the cities of the Babylonians, Assyrians and Sumerians have become fragile ruins, in a nation recovering from war.
  • In fact, similar murals have been found in South Africa and South Asia and honey has been repeatedly mentioned in the writings of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Egyptians.
  • Once the inhabitants, the Sumerians and the Akkadians, figured out how to irrigate the river valleys by building canals between the two rivers, the region became the bread bowl of the ancient world.
  • Egyptians, like Sumerians, must have quickly realized the limitations of writing with only pictograms.
  • In ancient Mesopotamia, the Sumerians made a distinction between the planet Venus, known as Delebat, who was worshipped as a goddess in her own right, and the goddess Inana, of whom she was an aspect.
  • Archaeological finds on Failaka, the largest of Kuwait's nine islands, suggests it was a trading post at the time of the ancient Sumerians.
  • He deduced this from comparisons of data taken by the ancient Sumerians 2,000 years before his time.
  • The Dilmun culture, along the Gulf coast, was contemporaneous with the Sumerians and ancient Egyptians, and most of the empires of the ancient world traded with the states of the peninsula.
  • Certainly in terms of their number system the Babylonians inherited ideas from the Sumerians and from the Akkadians.
  • The Sumerians and Egyptians also used symbols to represent spoken sounds, such as syllables and words.

• 2mass noun The Sumerian language.

  苏美尔语

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  • I can't think of a volume that has better interpreted the linguistic history of Eurasia, from Sumerian onwards, or of the entire world in the post-Columbian era.
  • The poems are written in Akkadian and Sumerian, the latter a mainly academic, scribal language, the former a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic.
  • If someone today were able to speak Sumerian, would they be a neuro-linguistic programmer?
  • First, Sumerian is usually translated through reference to Akkadian translations of Sumerian words and passages, and hence we are dependent on Akkadian understanding of Sumerian.
  • I resolutely resisted the temptation to take the easy road and use modern words as loan words in Sumerian, which would have ruined the whole experiment.
  • It exists today in myriad, fragmented Sumerian, Hittite, Babylonian, and other versions that scholars have had to piece together in order to assemble coherent accounts.
  • If only one thing is bunk in ‘Snow Crash’, I think it's the supposition that Sumerian was significantly different from any other language.
  • The work of Spencer Wells on the Y chromosome, for example, has thrown new light on the enigma of the origins of the Basque population and their language, which, like Sumerian, is an isolate unrelated to Indo-European.
  • Anyhow, I'm waiting for Mel's Gilgamesh - with dialog in Sumerian!
  • The bosses, as is their wont, reacted as if I had proposed handing out our promotional material written in Sumerian and wrapped in a puzzle.
  • Elam, whose capital was at Susa, was a part of Sumerian-Mesopotamian cultural region although the Elamite language does not seem to be related to Sumerian.
  • Now it is the impossibility of generalizing this principle of representation that has introduced even into fundamentally morphemographic writing systems such as Chinese, Egyptian, and Sumerian, the phonographic principle.
  • The notion of correct Latin and correct Greek had been at the center of European education for centuries at that point - and for that matter, the notion of correct Sanskrit or correct Sumerian had emerged in other places much earlier.
  • The epilogue of the Lipit-Ishtar code is typically Sumerian, being (like the prologue) rather florid.
  • The language represented was probably Sumerian but that is not certain.
  • I suppose now you are going to point me to a foreign root of the word ‘kill’ in Arabic or Sumerian or some other exotic language to try to prove your point?
  • By then, Rawlinson and his many rivals had revealed the history of Old Testament cities and the existence of the earliest writing and the oldest language known, Sumerian, dating back five millennia.
  • But, scholars now agree that the language of these tablets was Sumerian.
  • But when Ammondt tried his hand at translating the song Blue Suede Shoes into the ancient language of Sumerian, there were difficulties, not least that the Sumerians, who lived in 4000BC, didn't have shoes, let alone suede ones.

The Sumerians had one of the oldest known written languages, whose relationship to any other language is unclear. Theirs is the first historically attested civilization and they invented cuneiform writing, the sexagesimal system of mathematics, and the sociopolitical institution of the city state. Their art, literature, and theology had a profound influence long after their demise c.2000 BC