Questions tagged [cuneiform]
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Were long vowels distinguished in cuneiform?
Hittite cuneiform occasionally shows "plene" spellings, with extra vowel signs that might indicate vowel length, or show the height of back vowels, or distinguish homophones (like the French grave ...
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What is Ś in Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform?
In a few different places (1) (2), ORACC lists Ś (S with acute accent, U+015A) as a Unicode character used for Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform transcription.
However, I've never seen this letter used (in ...
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How are cuneiform glyphs numbered?
In Sumerian (and thus Akkadian, Hittite, etc) cuneiform, there are often several glyphs which have the same pronunciation (as far as we can tell). So the glyphs pronounced /u/ will be transliterated ...
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