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The Sumerian people represent Sumeria (or Sumer), a civilization in the Civilization games. They take their name from Sumer, a city that represents the historical region in which their civilization arose. Their capital is usually Uruk, and their leader is Gilgamesh.

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  • The Sumerian people represent Sumeria (or Sumer), a civilization in the Civilization games. They take their name from Sumer, a city that represents the historical region in which their civilization arose. Their capital is usually Uruk, and their leader is Gilgamesh.
  • see also: Sumerian:Phonology | Sumerian:Morphology and Syntax Sumerian was a language spoken and written in the Ancient near-east up until the early common era. It is the first attested language, and, although it stopped being spoken after 2000 BCE, it was used in the writing systems of numerous neighboring languages and served as a tongue of religion and education centuries after it died. It has no provable or convincing genetic relations to any other languages; partly because of this, there have been several difficulties in reconstructing the phonology and grammar of Sumerian.
  • Sumerian is a term used to describe a person or object from ancient Sumer; an area in and surrounding the deltas of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers unified during the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE. The Sumerian language was written in cuneiform on tablets of dried mud and manure. The organic material in the manure has proved a boon, as it allows us to carbon date Sumerian cuneiform tablets. Sumerian is known for its unique syntactic features, which include an object-object-verb-subject word order and the use of the morpheme p before inanimate nouns and non-gendered substantives. It also has a tendency to employ left dislocations, in much the same way that some American Indian languages do.
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  • :Scenario:Wonders of the Ancient World :Note: this is a scenario-specific civilization and not playable outside of this scenario. :Leader: Gilgamesh :Capital: Ur :Ability: Land of Two Rivers :Unique Unit: Phalanx :Unique Building: Ziggurat
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  • The Sumerian people represent Sumeria (or Sumer), a civilization in the Civilization games. They take their name from Sumer, a city that represents the historical region in which their civilization arose. Their capital is usually Uruk, and their leader is Gilgamesh.
  • see also: Sumerian:Phonology | Sumerian:Morphology and Syntax Sumerian was a language spoken and written in the Ancient near-east up until the early common era. It is the first attested language, and, although it stopped being spoken after 2000 BCE, it was used in the writing systems of numerous neighboring languages and served as a tongue of religion and education centuries after it died. It has no provable or convincing genetic relations to any other languages; partly because of this, there have been several difficulties in reconstructing the phonology and grammar of Sumerian.
  • Sumerian is a term used to describe a person or object from ancient Sumer; an area in and surrounding the deltas of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers unified during the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE. The Sumerian language was written in cuneiform on tablets of dried mud and manure. The organic material in the manure has proved a boon, as it allows us to carbon date Sumerian cuneiform tablets. Sumerian is known for its unique syntactic features, which include an object-object-verb-subject word order and the use of the morpheme p before inanimate nouns and non-gendered substantives. It also has a tendency to employ left dislocations, in much the same way that some American Indian languages do.
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