Doug Ewell scripsit:
> >Description: Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian <--- but compare
> >Description: Cuneiform Luwian
>
> The first is a script; the second is a language. I can't make any
> assumption as to whether the usage of "Cuneiform" is parallel in these
> two names. I think it would be maximally consistent to uninvert
> "Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian" and leave "Cuneiform Luwian" alone.
That's the Right Thing. The former is the style of cuneiform characters
used to write Sumerian and Akkadian; the latter is the type of Luwian
written with cuneiform characters.
--
John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category.
--Alan King
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