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sumerian

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Su⋅me⋅ri⋅an

  [soo-meer-ee-uhn, -mer-]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Sumer, its people, or their language.
–noun
2. a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
3. a language of unknown affinities that was the language of the Sumerians and had, in the late 4th and 3rd millenniums b.c., a well-developed literature that is preserved in pictographic and cuneiform writing and represents the world's oldest extant written documents.
Origin:
1870–75; Sumer + -ian
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Su·me·ri·an   (sōō-mîr'ē-ən, -měr'-)   
adj.  Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its people, language, or culture.
n.  

  1. A member of an ancient people, probably of non-Semitic origin, who established a nation of city-states in Sumer in the fourth millennium B.C. that is one of the earliest known historic civilizations.

  2. The language of the Sumerians, of no known linguistic affiliation.

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