Sumerian
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Sumerian is a term used to describe a person or object from the ancient kingdom of Sumeria. Unlike its sister language Akkadian, which was written in cuneiform, Sumerian was written in hieroglyphics. Historians believe that it is related to the Basque language of northern Spain and possibly Georgian. 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-gendered substantives. It also has a tendency to employ left dislocations, in much the same way that some American Indian languages do.