Binding Affinity

mysoulstayschemical:

archaeologicalperiodical:

Changes in cuneiform over time. It makes me so happy that I can read some of these. 

~The Archaic form is used to write Sumerian, which is an agglutinative language isolate and the Assyrian/Babylonian scripts are used to transcribe Akkadian —the first Semitic language (and Semitic languages are inflectional) found in written form. I wrote a research paper in Morphology on the Preservation of Old Babylonian Akkadian Grammar in Classical Arabic, looking particularly at the use of case and genitive constructions (ie. iDafa) that I should upload sometime. I wonder if anyone has some resources on Sumerian as I really want to translate what is written on this depiction of Melek Taus —The peacock angel that a Kurdish-Iraqi religious group, The Yazidi, worship. All I know is the word dingir —the determiner for deity.