Wesley Huff

Yeah. Well, Sumerian's a wild one because it's a language isolate. So Hebrew is an Afro-Semitic language. So Hebrew is related to all of these other languages like Aramaic and Akkadian. language isolates have no adjacent comparisons. So, because I tried to teach myself Sumerian and I failed and I just gave up because I couldn't do it because I had nothing to really compare it to.

Yeah. Well, Sumerian's a wild one because it's a language isolate. So Hebrew is an Afro-Semitic language. So Hebrew is related to all of these other languages like Aramaic and Akkadian. language isolates have no adjacent comparisons. So, because I tried to teach myself Sumerian and I failed and I just gave up because I couldn't do it because I had nothing to really compare it to.

So Sumeriologists are very like, they're a field of their own because I learned a little bit of Akkadian because I had studied Semitic languages and there's enough crossover between things like Hebrew and Aramaic and Akkadian, but Sumerian, you have nothing to compare it to.

So Sumeriologists are very like, they're a field of their own because I learned a little bit of Akkadian because I had studied Semitic languages and there's enough crossover between things like Hebrew and Aramaic and Akkadian, but Sumerian, you have nothing to compare it to.

So Sumeriologists are very like, they're a field of their own because I learned a little bit of Akkadian because I had studied Semitic languages and there's enough crossover between things like Hebrew and Aramaic and Akkadian, but Sumerian, you have nothing to compare it to.

It just died. It just died? It just died. How? Do we know? I mean, the Sumerians lost to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians got taken over by the Babylonians. I mean, it's just the course of history where things happen. But there are a number of ancient languages that are language isolates, like linear Elamite. We had no idea what linear Elamite even said until 2021. Wow.

It just died. It just died? It just died. How? Do we know? I mean, the Sumerians lost to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians got taken over by the Babylonians. I mean, it's just the course of history where things happen. But there are a number of ancient languages that are language isolates, like linear Elamite. We had no idea what linear Elamite even said until 2021. Wow.

It just died. It just died? It just died. How? Do we know? I mean, the Sumerians lost to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians got taken over by the Babylonians. I mean, it's just the course of history where things happen. But there are a number of ancient languages that are language isolates, like linear Elamite. We had no idea what linear Elamite even said until 2021. Wow.

I know. There you go. Jamie, if you pull up, if you look up – what's it called? There's a cup, a silver cup. It'll come up if you Google image linear elamite because you think cuneiform looks wild. Linear elamite is completely different than that too. And there's a silver cup, which we had no idea what it said, and then a bunch of researchers –

I know. There you go. Jamie, if you pull up, if you look up – what's it called? There's a cup, a silver cup. It'll come up if you Google image linear elamite because you think cuneiform looks wild. Linear elamite is completely different than that too. And there's a silver cup, which we had no idea what it said, and then a bunch of researchers –

I know. There you go. Jamie, if you pull up, if you look up – what's it called? There's a cup, a silver cup. It'll come up if you Google image linear elamite because you think cuneiform looks wild. Linear elamite is completely different than that too. And there's a silver cup, which we had no idea what it said, and then a bunch of researchers –

Ancient Near Eastern researchers developed... So let's... In the corner there, that one on... Far left corner? Oh, no, no. Here. Now it's moved because he clicked it. That one. Yeah, yeah. Click that. So that's linear Elamite. Whoa. And so that's in and around the same time that languages like Sumerian.

Ancient Near Eastern researchers developed... So let's... In the corner there, that one on... Far left corner? Oh, no, no. Here. Now it's moved because he clicked it. That one. Yeah, yeah. Click that. So that's linear Elamite. Whoa. And so that's in and around the same time that languages like Sumerian.

Ancient Near Eastern researchers developed... So let's... In the corner there, that one on... Far left corner? Oh, no, no. Here. Now it's moved because he clicked it. That one. Yeah, yeah. Click that. So that's linear Elamite. Whoa. And so that's in and around the same time that languages like Sumerian.

So there's this very interesting kind of... If we're talking about a story in the Bible like the Tower of Babel, where it says that God confused their languages... And everybody started speaking different languages. You have these languages that just pop up and out of nowhere and have no relation to one another. So Akkadian starts to adopt certain words in Sumerian, but they're still Sumerian.

So there's this very interesting kind of... If we're talking about a story in the Bible like the Tower of Babel, where it says that God confused their languages... And everybody started speaking different languages. You have these languages that just pop up and out of nowhere and have no relation to one another. So Akkadian starts to adopt certain words in Sumerian, but they're still Sumerian.

So there's this very interesting kind of... If we're talking about a story in the Bible like the Tower of Babel, where it says that God confused their languages... And everybody started speaking different languages. You have these languages that just pop up and out of nowhere and have no relation to one another. So Akkadian starts to adopt certain words in Sumerian, but they're still Sumerian.

It's like pizza is Italian, right? Or like kayak is Inuit. But when you're looking at... The words that carry over, it's not because there's a relationship between Akkadian and Sumerian. It's because you have these cultures that live side by side. And eventually, Akkadian starts to adopt these things. But Sumerian is... So that's why...

It's like pizza is Italian, right? Or like kayak is Inuit. But when you're looking at... The words that carry over, it's not because there's a relationship between Akkadian and Sumerian. It's because you have these cultures that live side by side. And eventually, Akkadian starts to adopt these things. But Sumerian is... So that's why...

It's like pizza is Italian, right? Or like kayak is Inuit. But when you're looking at... The words that carry over, it's not because there's a relationship between Akkadian and Sumerian. It's because you have these cultures that live side by side. And eventually, Akkadian starts to adopt these things. But Sumerian is... So that's why...