Abstract:The Sumerian language still keeps the prestigious position of being the first ever written
language. In this paper there are some presented linguistic data and examples, suggesting that
the Sumerian is not a language isolate, as it is regarded so far, but that it may be classified as
an r-Altaic language of the Bolgar branch. A proposed methodology for deducing such an
inference is also presented, along with the outcomes of its application in the form of
thirty-nine phonologi… Show more
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