Sumerian Grammatical Texts available online! The title is a misnomer - most of the texts given are early Sumerian-Akkadian lexica arranged by topic, or just plain Sumerian texts - but there are other interesting things, such as a phonetically organised syllabary (vowel order: u-a-i), and a series called "ana ittišu" (p. 30) with some rather paradigm-looking stuff, such as:
| Sumerian | Akkadian, English |
| ùr | sûnu, lap, bosom |
| ùr-bi | sûn-šu, his bosom |
| ùr-bi-šú | ana sûni-šu, upon his bosom |
| ùr-bi-šú in-gar | ana sûni-šu iškun, he placed upon his bosom |
which I guess offer a clue about the teaching methods used. These tablets were used to teach young Akkadian-speaking would-be scribes Sumerian, long after Sumerian itself had become extinct.
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