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THE SUMERIAN LANGUAGE<br />

5<br />

and so was Akkadian. Quite a few occurrences of apparent “de-<br />

Sumerization” or Akkadization of the language have led some scholars<br />

to the opinion that Sumerian had ceased to be a living spoken<br />

language as early as the end of the third millennium. The “areal”<br />

situation will be discussed more in detail below in Chapter 17.

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