シュメール人が発明した楔形文字は、古代オリエントの様々な言語で使用された。の英語

The cuneiform alphabet invented by the Sumerians was used by many languages in the ancient Near East.

an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia

cuneiform characters

an ancient language spoken by the Kassites

any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages

of ancient writing used in the languages of south west Asia, a widely used character whose shape resembles that of a wedge

the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe

a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages

of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths

an extinct ancient language of unknown affinities

a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed

the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms

characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions

the script in which the ancient Persian language of the Avesta is written

an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language

the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world

United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)

the language of educated people in ancient Rome

the ancient Gaelic formerly spoken on the Isle of Man

an extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions

the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written

of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages

an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia

The linguist probably etymologized the words incorrectly

a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945

The comparatist was a pioneer in comparative Indo-European linguistics.

conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry

any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages

This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect