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==External links== *''General'' **[http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Akkadian Unicode Font] (to see Cuneiform text) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721083505/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Akkadian256.zip Archive] *''Linguistic overviews'' **[http://hdl.handle.net/1887/16107 ''A Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian'' by Abraham Hendrik Jagersma] (preliminary version) **[http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/wordtexte/Sumerisch.doc Sumerisch (An overview of Sumerian by Ernst Kausen, in German)]<!--Based on Gabor Zolyomi's description AND rather detailed, → sufficiently different from Rubio, Foxvog AND the ETCSL overview to be useful, IMO.--> **[https://web.archive.org/web/20151031113742/http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14505.pdf Chapter VI of ''Magie chez les Chaldéens et les origines accadiennes''] (1874) by [[François Lenormant]]: the state of the art in the dawn of Sumerology, by the author of the first ever [http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/pdf/b_kaneva_2006.pdf] grammar of "Akkadian" *''Dictionaries and digital tools'' **[http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/nepsd-frame.html Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (EPSD)] **[http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/epsd2/ Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (EPSD) 2] **[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlp/cdlp0003_20160104.pdf Elementary Sumerian Glossary by Daniel A. Foxvog (after M. Civil 1967)] **[https://boris.unibe.ch/80500/1/Lexiquesumrien-franais_ger.pdf Lexique sumérien-français by Pascal Attinger (2019)] **[http://www.gilgamesh.ch/svc/sva.html Sumerian verb analyser] and [http://www.gilgamesh.ch/svc/svc.html conjugator] by Margaret Jaques and Dieter Koch. Numerous intricacies and problems of Sumerian verbal morphology are discussed in the [https://www.gilgamesh.ch/svc/svc.html?docu=1 documentation]. *''Corpora'' **[http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)]. Includes translations. **[http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus], including several Sumerian sub-corpora; notably, [https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/ The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions], [https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ckst/ Corpus of Kassite Sumerian Texts], [https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/blms/ Bilinguals in Late Mesopotamian Scholarship], [https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dsst/ Datenbank sumerischer Streitliteratur]. In addition, [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/index.html The Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online], [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/index.html The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online] and [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/index.html The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period online] also contain Sumerian inscriptions (searchable by entering language:sumerian). **[http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/ CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative] a large corpus of Sumerian texts in transliteration, largely from the Early Dynastic and Ur III periods, accessible with images. **[https://cdli-gh.github.io/year-names/yn_index.html Mesopotamian year names. Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian Date Formulae] (a large part of the year names are in Sumerian) *''Research'' **[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114024621/http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/edition2/etcslpublications.php Online publications arising from the ETCSL project] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) **[http://www.assziriologia.hu/downloads/gz_structural_interference.pdf Structural Interference from Akkadian in Old Babylonian Sumerian by Gábor Zólyomi] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) **[https://web.archive.org/web/20080803183452/http://www.assziriologia.hu/site/publikaciok_zg.jsp Other online publications by Gábor Zólyomi] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) **[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/DIGLOS~1.htm The Life and Death of the Sumerian Language in Comparative Perspective] by Piotr Michalowski **[https://web.archive.org/web/20090520135916/http://static.cdli.ucla.edu/staff/johnson/johnson.html Online publications by Cale Johnson] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]]) **Eléments de linguistique sumérienne (by Pascal Attinger, 1993; in French), at the digital library [http://doc.rero.ch/ RERO DOC]: [http://doc.rero.ch/record/8833/files/Attinger_Pascal_-_El_ments_de_linguistique_sum_rienne_1993_1.pdf Parts 1–4], [http://doc.rero.ch/record/8833/files/Attinger_Pascal_-_El_ments_de_linguistique_sum_rienne_1993_2.pdf Part 5]. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20070111192046/http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~deutscherg/NotUnfolding/Orientalia-Sumerian.doc The Origin of Ergativity in Sumerian, and the Inversion in Pronominal Agreement: A Historical Explanation Based on Neo-Aramaic parallels, by E. Coghill & G. Deutscher, 2002] at the [[Internet Archive]] {{Wikibooks|en:Sumerian|Sumerian language}} {{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=[[Wiktionary]] has a word list at '''''[[Wiktionary:Appendix:Sumerian basic vocabulary|Appendix:Sumerian basic vocabulary]]'''''}} {{language families}} {{Ancient Mesopotamia}} {{Eurasian languages}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sumerian Language}} [[Category:Sumerian language| ]] [[Category:Agglutinative languages]] [[Category:Cuneiform]] [[Category:Sumer]] [[Category:Subject–object–verb languages]] [[Category:Language isolates of Asia]] [[Category:Languages attested from the 3rd millennium BC]] [[Category:Languages extinct in the 2nd millennium BC]]
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