Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform
Syllabic writing system
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Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named... Wikipedia
Year: . 3500 BCE
Child systems: None; influenced the shape of Ugaritic and Old Persian glyphs
Direction: Left-to-right
Parent systems: Proto-cuneiform (Proto-writing): Cuneiform
Unicode range: U+12000 to U+123FF Cuneiform; U+12400 to U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
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