Cuneiform

"Meso"

middle

Potamos

river

What rivers does Mesopotamia lie between?

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

What is the present day country that Mesopotamia occupy?

Iraq

What does isolate language means?

The language is not known to be related to any languages.

Sumerian Language is an example of_____

language isolate

When is Sumerians conquered?

Sumerians were conquered by Akkadian people around the 24 century BCE.

The Sumerian language remains as a

language of learning (just as Latin was to the medieval Europeans)

Akkadian Empire (2335-2154BCE) was the ______ ancient empire of Mesopotamia

first

Akkadian spoke a _______ language, which is not related to Sumerians

semitic

Akkadian speakers adapted the _______ _______ to write their own language

Sumerian Cuneiform

_____ and _____ were states centered of Babylon and Ashur

Babylonia, Assyria

Ashur and Babylon are competing empires in _____ and ____

South, North

Babylonia and Assyrian can be regarded as _______ of single Akkadian language

dialects

Elam, whose civilization spanned from________

c.3200-539 BCE

Elam was a region corresponding to the west and southwest of present day_____

Iran

The Elamite language is also a

language isolate

Ebla is a city near Aleppo in

Syria

The Eblaite language is a

semitic language

The _______ were an Anatolian people who once established an empire centered on Hattusa, which is around the present day Bogazkoy Turkey

Hittites

The Hittite language is an extinct

Indo-European language

The _____ lived in Anatolia, Syria, and Northern Mesopotamia

Hurrians

______ Ugarit was a port in northern syria

Ugarit

The Ugaritic language they spoke was a

Semitic language

The ______ Empire expanded into the Mesopotamia region in 6th century BCE.

Achaemenid

The Persian conqueror the spoke ____ an Indo-European languag

Old persian, and Indo-European

The Persian conquerors uses ____ as an administrative and diplomatic language

Aramaic

What materials were used to produce cuneiform writing?

Cuneiform is written on Clay tablets and wedge shape were made using reads like a stylus

What linguistic units do cuneiform symbols represent?

It represents morphemes/

Morphogram

pictograms

A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept. Used by many non-alphabetic written scripts.

example: the symbols of /sag/

semantic extension

expanding the meaning of a word

example: the symbol for /du/ the feet symbol but it means stand and go

Differentiation

symbols can change from one to another by adding extra element

example: /sag/ and /ka/ differs by blurring the mouth

Semantic compound

putting two pictogram together

example: /a/ the meaning of the original morpheme is irrelevant