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Cuneiform is one of the earliest writing systems in human history. Was invented by Sumerian people. Beginning in Sumer at the end of the fourth millennium BC (Uruk IV period) to convey the Sumerian language, which is a separate language, the wedge-shaped handwriting begins as a symbolic system.
In the third millennium, image wall icons have become simpler and more abstract when the number of characters is used increasingly smaller (Hittite cuneiform). The system consists of a combination of logophonetic notation, negative alphabet and sylltables.