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  • ...(cuneiform)|en]]-ĝir<sub>15</sub>}}, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land". {{lang|sux-Latn|ĝir<sub>15</sub>}} means "native, local ...cher'/> Sumer was conquered by the [[Semitic languages|Semitic-speaking]] kings of the [[Akkadian Empire]] around 2270 BC ([[short chronology]]), but Sumer
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  • ...ragments have been excavated to date, covering a vast textual tradition of mythological narrative, legal texts, scientific works, correspondence, political and mil ...second millennium BC, but because it was a purely popular language &mdash; kings wrote in Babylonian &mdash; few long texts are preserved. From 1500 BC onwa
    69 KB (10,010 words) - 09:13, 19 November 2023