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cuneiform
/kjuˈni.ə.fɔɹm/
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What does cuneiform mean?
adjective
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
- Written in the cuneiform writing system.
noun
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BCE, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
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noun
- A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
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IPA pronunciation
/kjuˈni.ə.fɔɹm/
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/ˈkju.nɪ.fɔɹm//kjuˈneɪ.ɪ.fɔɹm/
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I find that many Greek inscriptions exhibit the cuneiform element in nearly all the letters composing them.
For the literary connexion which we have in Genesis between the Creation and the Deluge narratives has hitherto found no parallel in the cuneiform texts.
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As the hieroglyphs, cuneiform inscriptions, and various other records of antiquity are read, the development of this belief can be studied in Egypt, India, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, and Phoenicia.
Comparison of the known with the unknown, of the language which survived with the language that had been lost, enabled this cadet to acquire some knowledge of the cuneiform character, and even to form an alphabet.
It cannot be the Chinese alphabet, which has more signs than words; it cannot be the cuneiform alphabet of Assyria, with its seven hundred arrow-shaped characters, none of which bear the slightest affinity to the Phoenician letters.