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The 28 pages that link to Sumerian language, each with the reason it gives.

• CuneiformRelated: Its earliest written records helped shape the development of cuneiform.

• MesopotamiaRelated: Sumerian was used in early records and remained a scholarly language after it ceased to be spoken.

• Epic of GilgameshRelated: Earlier Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh supplied episodes later combined in Akkadian versions.

• SumerRelated: Its inscriptions and literature preserve Sumerian institutions and beliefs.

• Sumerian King ListRelated: Sumerian was used in some witnesses and remained a learned scribal language.

• Library of AshurbanipalRelated: Scholarly tablets often preserved Sumerian texts alongside Akkadian translations.

• AshurbanipalRelated: The library’s learned scribes copied Sumerian works alongside Akkadian versions and commentaries.

• Sumerian religionRelated: Sumerian religious compositions survive in the language used by scribes and worshippers.

• Third Dynasty of UrRelated: Sumerian remained prominent in the dynasty’s administration, schooling, and royal inscriptions.

• EnlilRelated: Enlil’s name and earliest written attestations come from Sumerian texts.

• Sumerian city-statesRelated: Its earliest written records are closely tied to the institutions of emerging cities.

• Ur-NammuRelated: Royal and administrative records from his period used Sumerian.

• Sumerian mythologyRelated: Sumerian myths survive in texts composed in this language.

• Ur III periodRelated: Most Ur III administrative documents were written in Sumerian.

• AssyriologyRelated: Sumerian literary and administrative texts form a major part of Mesopotamian textual study.

• Code of Ur-NammuRelated: The collection's surviving text is written in Sumerian.

• EannatumRelated: Sumerian was the language of the inscriptions that record Eannatum’s claims.

• UrukaginaRelated: The surviving accounts of Urukagina’s measures are written in Sumerian.

• EnmerkarRelated: The poems about Enmerkar survive in Sumerian-language tablets.

• Instructions of ShuruppakRelated: Its surviving versions depend on scribes writing in the language in which the sayings circulated.