Re: Sumerian Lexicon

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:22:55 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

>This appeared in another list:
>http://www.sumerian.org/sumerlex.htm
>
>Quite interesting. But I'm more curious about:
>
>--Does anyone know anything about the author? (he says he was a student at
>UCSB at some point)
>
>--It seems to be legit scholarship, but is it actually? i.e. not wacked-out
>ravings
>
>Comments?
Well, based on a cursory view of it, I'm skeptical of the rather high
number of words that consist of only one vowel.  IIRC, Sumerian is
notorious for its apparent extreme homophony and/or homonymy, but I doubt
that that was actually the case with the language.

As Damien said, it's also very unlikely that the Sumerians invented their
language outright (unless Mr. Halloran is talking about the written
language).

- Rob

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