Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Cuneiform" in English language version.
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Connected Akkadian texts appear c. 2350 and continue more or less uninterrupted for the next two and a half millennia...
The existence of the Anitta text demonstrates that there was not a sudden and total interruption in writing but a phase of adaptation to a new writing.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)In its fully developed form, the Sumerian script is based on a mixture of logographic and phonographic writing. There are basically two types of signs: word signs, or logograms, and sound signs, or phonograms.
The cuneiform inscription that serves as Liberty Fund's logo and as a design element in our books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word 'freedom' (amagi), or 'liberty'. It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
Hittite is written in a form of the cuneiform syllabary, a writing system in use in Sumerian city-states in Mesopotamia by roughly 3100 BC and used to write a number of languages in the ancient Near East until the first century BC