Has the Sumerian Language Been Translated?

Sumerian is a language isolate. Ever since decipherment, it has been the subject of much effort to relate it to a wide variety of languages.

Can Sumerian writing be translated?

Some 90% of cuneiform texts remain untranslated. That could change thanks to a very modern helper: machine translation. ... But its texts are mainly written in Sumerian and Akkadian, languages that relatively few scholars can read.

Can we read Sumerian language?

Sumerian is the oldest language that we can read that has come to us from antiquity, with clay tablets surviving from as far back as roughly 3200 BCE. ...

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