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Fascinating. May I ask how one would go about learning Sumerian. Any resources/online classes would be much appreciated. I am currently reading Enuma Elish and
by jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Fascinating. May I ask how one would go about learning Sumerian. Any resources/online classes would be much appreciated.
I am currently reading Enuma Elish and Epic of Gilgamesh translated. It’s a rabbit hole. My wish list for the rest of my life is significantly longer now.. some of them possible..learning Sumerian/Akkadian and going to Pamir Hwy and silk route.. Checking out where Oxus flowed and ancient civilizations lived seems like a 2020 thing to do.
- tasogare 7y agoDo you read French? If yes, there is this remote diploma of Sumerian offered by the University of Strasbourg (costs around 400€/year, formation of two years): https://histoire.unistra.fr/offre-de-formation/diplome-duniversite-de-langues-anciennes https://histoire.unistra.fr/offre-de-formation/diplome-duniv.... This is the path I took. The Louvre Museum also has epigraphy courses, but nothing remote. Then there are the free resources such as ePSD (dictionary), materials put online by CDLI, le manuel d'épigraphie akkadienne de René Labat (https://archive.org/details/LabatR.ManuelDEpigraphieAkkadienne5Ed1976 https://archive.org/details/LabatR.ManuelDEpigraphieAkkadien...) that also contains Sumerian reading of symbols, Jagersma thesis. Those are necessary to got further, but as the language is really grammatical, it not something that can really be learnt without class in my opinion.