Re: Sumerian Lexicon

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:00:12 -0600, Kevin Athey
<kevindeanathey@...> wrote:

>>From: Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
>>
>>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 well you should be.  This is the reason most Sumerian experts posit
>tonality in the language.
Either that, or the Sumerologists have been missing something in their
transcriptions.

- Rob

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