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How to pronounce “cuneiform”
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Pronunciation guide for cuneiform
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of cuneiform with real speech in context.
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- Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe
Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the earliest Chinese script,
- Definition summary
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
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How to pronounce cuneiform
Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe
Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the earliest Chinese script,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “cuneiform”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
- Written in the cuneiform writing system.
- [Noun]
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
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