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U (cuneiform)
The cuneiform U sign is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. It can be used for the alphabetic ''u'', instead of the more common 2nd u, (ú). It has two other uses, commonly. It can be used for the number 10 (especially the Amarna letters from Tushratta of Mitanni, or Burna-Buriash II the king of Babylon), but its probable greater use is for the conjunction, ''u'', with any of the conjunction meanings: ''and'', ''but'', ''else'', etc. Of the three u's, by graphemic analysis (Buccellati, 1979), the commonness is as follows: :Ù (cuneiform), conjunction only (but also rare, for alphabetic "u") :ú (cuneiform), alphabetic 'u' :u (cuneiform), alphabetic (minor), 10, conjunction (highest use) Both Ù (cuneiform) and ú are in the top 25 most used signs, but E (cuneiform) and "u (cuneiform)" are not; other vowels (or combination) in the 25 are: a (cuneiform), i (cuneiform), and ia (cuneiform), (which has a secondary use as suffix, ''" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' bee'' (pronounced ), plural ''bees''. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. History Old English was originally written in runes, whose equivalent letter was beorc , meaning "birch". Beorc dates to at least the 2nd-century Elder Futhark, which is now thought to have derived from the Old Italic alphabets' either directly or via Latin . The uncial and half-uncial introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' . These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I (cuneiform)
The cuneiform i sign is a common use vowel sign. It can be found in many languages, examples being the Akkadian language of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' (hundreds of years, parts of millenniums) and the mid 14th-century BC Amarna letters; also the Hittite language-(see table of Hittite cuneiform signs below). In the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' it also has a minor usage as a sumerogram, I. The usage numbers from the Epic are as follows: ''i''-(698), ''I''-(1). As ''i'' and one of the four vowels in Akkadian (there is no "o"), scribes can easily use one sign (a vowel, or a syllable with a vowel) to substitute one vowel for another. In the Amarna letters, the segue adverb ''"now"'', or "now, at this time", Akkadian language 'enūma', is seldom spelled with the 'e'; instead its spellings are typically: ''anūma'', ''inūma'', and sometimes ''enūma''. In both the Amarna letters and the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' another common use of the "i" sign is for the preposition, Akkadian language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ki (cuneiform)
Ki or KI may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Albums * ''Ki'' (Devin Townsend Project album), 2009 * ''Ki'' (Kitaro album), 1979 Songs * "Ki", a song from the album " Minecraft - Volume Beta" by C418 Businesses and organizations * Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag, a Faroese semi-professional football club * Communist Initiative, Marxist–Leninist organization in Austria * Karolinska Institute, Swedish university * Kenyon Institute, a British research institute in Jerusalem * Adam Air (2002–2008), an Indonesian airline * Kiwanis International, service club Language * Ki language, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon * Ki (kana), a Japanese syllabic character * Ki (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing * Gikuyu language, ISO 639-1 code:ki Names * Ki (Korean surname), a Korean surname * Ki or Qi (surname) * Ki or Ji (surname) Places * Kangaroo Island, Australia * Ki Monastery, in India * Kiawah Island, South Carolina, United States * Kings Island, Ohio, United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di (cuneiform)
The cuneiform di sign, also de, ṭe, ṭi, and sumerograms DI and SÁ is a common-use sign of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. In the Akkadian language for forming words, it can be used syllabically for: ''de, di, ṭe, and ṭi''; also alphabetically for letters ''d'', ''ṭ'', ''e'', or ''i''. (All the four vowels in Akkadian are interchangeable for forming words (''a, e, i, u''), thus the many choices of scribes is apparent for composing actual 'dictionary-entry' words.) Some consonant-pairs (d/t), are also interchangeable (for example the ''d'', ''t'', and ''ṭ''). ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' usage The usage numbers for ''di/de'' in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' are as follows: ''de''-(8) times, ''di''-(161), ''ṭe''-(7), ''ṭi''-(19), ''DI''-(1), ''SÁ''-(2) times. Besides ''ša'' usage in word components of verbs, nouns, etc., it has a major usage between words. In Akkadian, for English language ''"who"'', it is an interrogati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMAR (amāru Sumerogram)
Amar may refer to: People Given name * Amar (British singer) (born 1982), British Indian singer born Amar Dhanjal * Amar (Lebanese singer) (born 1986), born Amar Mahmoud Al Tahech * Amar Bose (1929–2013), Founder of Bose Corporation * Amar Gupta (born 1953), Indian computer scientist *Amar Gegić, Bosnian basketball player * Amar Khan, Pakistani director, writer and television actress * Amar Mehta (born 1990), Indian figure skater * Amar Singh (general) ( 13th century), military general of Brahmachal * Amar Singh Thapa (1751–1816), Nepalese Badakaji * Amar Singh Thapa (sardar) (1759–1814), Nepalese General * Amar Talwar (born 1922), Bollywood and Television actor * Amar Upadhyay (born 1972), Indian Television actor Surname * Akhil Amar (born 1958), American professor of law at Yale * David Amar (1920–2000), Moroccan Jewish businessman * Jean-Pierre-André Amar (1755–1816), politician in the French Revolution * Jo Amar (1930–2009), Moroccan-Israeli singer * Larry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumerogram
A Sumerogram is the use of a Sumerian cuneiform character or group of characters as an ideogram or logogram rather than a syllabogram in the graphic representation of a language other than Sumerian, such as Akkadian or Hittite. Sumerograms are normally transliterated in majuscule letters, with dots separating the signs. In the same way, a written Akkadian word that is used ideographically to represent a language other than Akkadian (such as Hittite) is known as an ''Akkadogram''. This type of logogram characterized, to a greater or lesser extent, every adaptation of the original Mesopotamian cuneiform system to a language other than Sumerian. The frequency and intensity of their use varied depending on period, style, and genre. The name of the cuneiform sign written in majuscule letters is a modern Assyriological convention. Most signs have a number of possible Sumerian sound values. The readers of Assyrian or Hittite texts using these Sumerograms would not necessarily have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuneiform UL
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: ) which form its signs. Cuneiform was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system. Over the course of its history, cuneiform was adapted to write a number of languages in addition to Sumerian. Akkadian texts are attested from the 24th century BC onward and make up the bulk of the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself adapted to write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian, and Urartian. The Old Persian and Ugaritic alphabets feature cuneiform-style signs; however, they are unrelated to the cuneiform l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMAR (cuneiform)
Amar may refer to: People Given name * Amar (British singer) (born 1982), British Indian singer born Amar Dhanjal * Amar (Lebanese singer) (born 1986), born Amar Mahmoud Al Tahech * Amar Bose (1929–2013), Founder of Bose Corporation * Amar Gupta (born 1953), Indian computer scientist *Amar Gegić, Bosnian basketball player * Amar Khan, Pakistani director, writer and television actress * Amar Mehta (born 1990), Indian figure skater * Amar Singh (general) ( 13th century), military general of Brahmachal * Amar Singh Thapa (1751–1816), Nepalese Badakaji * Amar Singh Thapa (sardar) (1759–1814), Nepalese General * Amar Talwar (born 1922), Bollywood and Television actor * Amar Upadhyay (born 1972), Indian Television actor Surname * Akhil Amar (born 1958), American professor of law at Yale * David Amar (1920–2000), Moroccan Jewish businessman * Jean-Pierre-André Amar (1755–1816), politician in the French Revolution * Jo Amar (1930–2009), Moroccan-Israeli singer * Larry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labaya
Labaya (also transliterated as Labayu or Lib'ayu) was a 14th-century BCE ruler or warlord in the central hill country of southern Canaan. He lived contemporaneously with Pharaoh Akhenaten. Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated "EA", for 'el Amarna'). He is the author of letters EA 252– 54. Labaya was active over the whole length of Samaria and slightly beyond, as he gave land to Habiru in the vicinity of Šakmu (Shechem) and he and his sons threatened such powerful towns as Jerusalem and Gazru (Gezer) to the south, and Megiddo to the north. Career The Amarna letters give an incomplete look at Labaya's career. In the first of Labaya's letters thus far discovered (EA 252), he defends himself to the Pharaoh against complaints of other city rulers about him, for example, the complaint that he has hired mercenaries from among the Habiru. Labaya further admitted to having invaded Gezer and insulting its king Milkilu. He denied any knowledge of his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
