How to pronounce “sumerian” in English

So the Sumerian vocabulary had a lot of words that were probably differentiated by tone.

It means that Sumerian was recorded just in time, but the big languages,

disappearing of course because Sumerian is not only the oldest attested language it's the first known extinct language so you know it's or it was already out four

you know in Sumerian it's clear that it couldn't have been pronounced like we think because otherwise they wouldn't have had 54 different ways of writing the same

So Ninkasi was the ancient Sumerian goddess of fermentation.

So when I realized that the Sumerians, who in many ways are the inventors of slavery, because after all, the first records of slavery come from ancient Sumerian culture in a

systems emerged from these first kind of Sumerian accountants really developing this system.

is clearly extinct and was documented is Sumerian okay this is a language which in fact you know documenting the language doesn't save it from

Christianity, and the Sumerian mythology, which was a founding inspiration for a lot of the Greeks and a lot of the Hebrews.

language in the Akkadian communities that took over the Sumerian Akkadian met

And so I think that what happened with the Sumerians, with their pictographic signs, is that those signs are right at the end of a very, very, very

The very first information technologies created by the Sumerians and Egyptians were in the hands of a very few people.

Alright, so you've got the Sumerian situation, but the same King you know what he does after he declared war on Legash or the rival place wins, and what does he do after that he declares

In fact the first recorded word for freedom in any human language is the Sumerian word "amargi" which literally means return to mother because that's what happens.

we know a little bit more about Akkadian than we do about Sumerian there's a lot about Sumerian we don't know like how

very, very long time before the Sumerians, people in the world, the world of what we call the Middle East, were in

You read about the Sumerians at the university in your cultural anthropology course? The Sumerians, ancient Mesopotamia, which

He's an expert on cuneiform script and more generally, on ancient languages like Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian.

disciples will do as soon as possible, you actually have to cope with two languages: the Sumerian and the Babylonian.

And then around the 1800s, people started to write them down in Sumerian or Babylonian.

Humanity has been using records for about 5,500 years, since the time of Sumerian tablets.

So people like to generalize about the Sumerians at this time of the world, but they probably all came out of two rooms,

We saw an emergence of the first civilization, the Sumerians.

So that with all the signs, a fluent, well-trained scribe could not only write down the Sumerian language, which was one of the native tongues of Iraq, or the Babylonian language, which was the other main language of Iraq, but also any other language he heard.

For example, in Sumerian, you have a funny

We can read Akkadian or Babylonian, Sumerian pretty well fluently.

reason is not that they were mad or they wanted to make life hell, but because the syllables derive from the writing of Sumerian words.

The other language, which is Sumerian, the one when you

There's not one for Sumerian.

maybe in China, in Russia, in somewhere else in Asia, that were related to Sumerian, - Are gone?

- We are, except that when you went to scribal school, you had to learn Sumerian and Akkadian, the languages properly, and all the

And before that, it probably goes back to Punic times, to the Syrian empire, to Sumerian empire, and so probably all the same, but we

Actually the very first document we have which talks about interest rates is a political document by a King I believe his name is, a Sumerian King who's complaining