Ar 14:08 -0700 1999-10-04, scr�obh Dean A. Snyder:
>>Nor Akkadian, nor Chinese....
>>
>>Scott Horne
>
>Akkadian script is based upon Sumerian, and the Akkadian scribes
>learned Sumerian in school. We have many Sumero-Akkadian bi-lingual
>texts and most Akkadian texts have various Sumerian logograms
>embedded in them.
I call it Sumero-Akkadian but the was that this particular writing system
wasn't borrowed from another one.
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