Prior to joining the Mercyhurst faculty in 2011, Dausey was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the Senior Director of Health Programs and Initiatives at the H. John Heinz III College. Dausey maintains an honorary faculty position at Carnegie Mellon as a Distinguished Service Professor.
Sumerian language. Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. First attested about 3100 bc in southern Mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium bc. About 2000 bc, Sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by Semitic Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) but continued in written usage almost to the end of the life of the Akkadian language, around the beginning of the Christian era.
Briefly describe the three hypotheses formulated by 19th Century-evolutionists in an effort to explain the origin of human language. The first hypothesis described human language originating from animal sound imitations and then eventually developing into human language. The second regards human language originating from exclamations, and the third describes language originating from work chants. transform.