Sumerian Language For Beginners

Sumerian Language For Beginners
Published 5/2025
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz

Learn the basics of Sumerian: cuneiform writing, grammar, vocabulary and texts.

What you’ll learn

Learn the history of the Sumerian language

Recognize basic cuneiform signs

Decline Sumerian nouns and conjugate Sumerian verbs

Read simple original Sumerian texts

Requirements

No previous knowledge of ancient languages is required.

Description

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 History of Sumerian language

Lecture 2 Cuneiform

Lecture 3 Consonants and vowels

Section 2: Noun phrase

Lecture 4 Nouns

Lecture 5 Noun phrase

Lecture 6 Adjectives

Lecture 7 Possessive pronouns

Lecture 8 Plural

Lecture 9 Ergative and Absolutive

Lecture 10 Genitive

Lecture 11 Locative, Terminative, Ablative

Lecture 12 Dative, Directive, Comitative, Equative

Lecture 13 Copula

Section 3: Verbal chain

Lecture 14 Verbal chain

Lecture 15 Hamtu (Past)

Lecture 16 Maru (Present-Future)

Lecture 17 Ventive

Lecture 18 Locative (verbs)

Lecture 19 Terminative, Ablative, Comitative (verbs)

Lecture 20 Dative and Directive (verbs)

Lecture 21 Relative clauses

Lecture 22 Imperative

Lecture 23 Modality

Lecture 24 Negation and prohibition

Lecture 25 Personal and interrogative pronouns

Section 4: Reading practice

Lecture 26 Gudea’s inscription