Cuneiform - Cuneiform writing

Japanese: 楔形文字 - くさびがたもじ
Cuneiform - Cuneiform writing
Also read as "sekkei moji." A script widely used in the ancient Orient, including Sumer, Assyria, Hittite, and ancient Persia. It is often inscribed on clay tablets with a sharp rod-shaped object, giving it a wedge-like shape. It is generally written horizontally from left to right, and many are syllabic characters accompanied by consonants, but some characters represent single vowels. When the Sumerians invented it around 4000 to 3000 BC, it was a pictogram. Around 2500 BC, it began to take on a distinctive wedge shape. It was deciphered by Grotephent, Rawlinson, Hincks, Hrozny, and Bauer. →Scripts→Related topics Akkadian | Assyriology | Iranian languages ​​| Ugarit | Elamite | Cuneiform writing | Sumer | Clay tablet writing | Babylonian | Hittite | Boğazköy | Mari (ruins)

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Japanese:
〈せっけいもじ〉とも読む。シュメール,アッシリア,ヒッタイト,古代ペルシアなどの古代オリエントで広く使用された文字。多く粘土板に角のある棒状のもので刻んだために楔に似た形をとる。一般に左から右へ横書きし,多くは子音を伴う音節文字だが,単独の母音を表す文字もある。前4000年から前3000年ごろシュメール人が発明したときは絵文字だった。前2500年ごろから,特徴的な楔の形をとるようになる。グローテフェント,ローリンソン,ヒンクス,フロズニー,バウアーらによって解読された。→文字
→関連項目アッカド語|アッシリア学|イラン語派|ウガリト|エラム語|楔形文字法|シュメール|粘土板文書|バビロニア語|ヒッタイト語|ボアズキョイ|マリ(遺跡)

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