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The Mugsar Sumerian Cuneiform English Dictionary is the only standalone one for the founders of Western Civilization in the world. And talk about nifty:
The unique " " 1. sign 3. lemma 4. translation All on one screen. translation All on one screen.
At elite university sites it's all over the place. None give unicodes and their translations are superficial / computer generated. The real nifty part, the " Index" Specially designed for small 'tablet' screens that may not be able to display cuneiform fonts. .. The first great civilization (fl c. 6600CT - 8000CT) were the Sumerians - "ki.en.gi", who were black (' sa gig.ga') to boot! For the enlightened Sumer is aptly termed the 'cradle of civilization'.
Much has been plagiarized from them without due attribution, not just the wheel, writing, law, but even true etymologies - the real origins of so many English words like 'abzu' = abyss, not to mention 'shekel', the Hebrew term for money -- some would have us believe that everything starts with the Greeks and Romans, world champion plagiarizers themselves. Our libraries may as well forget the non-fiction / history section - just put it all under fiction. How some can relegate this great civilization to what's conjured by terms like "ancient" and "BC". It's not going backwards, they come first at about 6600CT. ..
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Inspiration for all this came out of not being able to find a Sumerian cuneiform sign list with unicode, lemma and translation.
There are some amazing dedicated websites and books produced by some amazing academes {missing fragment} ...from the experience of living in Japan and studying kan-ji , it became obvious that you have to have the logogram, reading and translation all together. Just reading and translation is useless. And now of course linking everything is the unicode see our unique ' ', an example: .. Inanna and the Seven Cosmic Powers of her Loincloth u -/ba nin-u an\ mu-un-niin -na-ta Once, my dear lady heaven roamed around,
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ud-ba | nin | - u | an\ | /mu-un-niin -na-ta\ |
Once BA open halve | lady, mistress MUG + TUG garment | 'dear one' Determ. / honor. | heaven | roamed around TA much |
Some well funded universities like Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies, ETCSL et al have everything separated, don't give unicodes at all, and for the sign they link off to PSD (University of Pennsylvania) where it is often not clear which is the relevant one.
And their translations are superficial, probably computer generated. When you work with the actual cuneiform signs, rather than just impotent readings using our boring English phonetic script, you start to see that the scribes were not just telling a story, but literally painting the scene. When we start going deeper than such misleading translations it becomes very revealing. It's not just that to the chagrin of some, that the Sumerians keep referring to themselves as black, there's a sign in particular that clearly tells us that the very first professors, scholars, experts, master craftsman, the ones who could write and teach, were black... ...and 'um-mi-a' is not just of a more recent period of only 4000 years ago (Ur III) it goes way back to over 5000 years ago (ED IIIb) [a good 2000 years before the Greeks et al] : .. ..
Gilgamesh, the hero of oldest written epic is also black BIL.GA.ME (Sumerian: Bilgamesh [cf. Billjim!] ; Akkad.: Gilgamesh) [ dub able to write = power connotation)] And not only were the first scholars black, the earliest known author and poet was female (and most likely black), . .. It's even more bewildering when you see someone like is there too). .. Scratching and dragging a pointed stylus would not have been near as effective and enduring for us to be able to read now.