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-'''Sumerian''' is a term used to describe a person or object from ancient [[Sumer]]; an area in and surrounding the deltas of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers unified during the middle of the 3rd millenium BC. Sumerian was written in[[cuneiform]] on tablets of dried mud and [[manure]]. The organic material in the manure has proved a boon, as it allows us to [[carbon date]] Sumerian cuneiform tablets. Sumerian is known for its unique syntactic features, which include an object-object-verb-subject word order and the use of the morpheme ''p'' before inanimate nouns and non-[[gender]]ed [[substantive]]s.  It also has a tendency to employ left dislocations, in much the same way that some [[American Indian]] [[language]]s do.
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