Sumerian Translator

About Sumerian

Sumerian is the oldest known written language, documented from approximately 3100 BCE in southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is a language isolate with no proven relationship to any other known language family. Sumerian was written in cuneiform script, which the Sumerians themselves invented, making it one of the earliest writing systems in human history.

Sumerian civilization produced remarkable literary, mathematical, and administrative texts. The language continued to be used as a scholarly and liturgical language for nearly two millennia after it ceased to be spoken, similar to Latin in medieval Europe. Sumerian literature includes some of humanity's earliest known stories, including precursors to the biblical flood narrative. The language features an ergative-absolutive grammatical structure and extensive use of compound verbs, making it typologically distinct from the Semitic languages that later dominated the region.