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The Babylonians also used Sumerian as a prestige language long after it was dead, much like we might use Latin today. Also, reading Akkadian cuneiform involves learning a bit of Sumerian vocabulary, because texts spell out words in Sumerian that were presumably pronounced instead as the appropriate Akkadian word (Sumerograms).


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