Tu (cuneiform) Tu (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign tu, and for TU-(the sumerogram, capital letter (majuscule), in the Hittite language and other cuneiform texts, is a common-use syllabic sign for ""tu"", and also with a syllabic use for ""t"", or ""u"". It is not a multi-use sign, with other alphabetic sub-varieties. The Sumerian language version is similar to the usage in the Amarna letters, with the 3-horizontal strokes connecting the 4-angled wedges on the left, and connected to the vertical horizontal single-stroke, at right. Varieties exist: for example Amarna letter EA 271 shows 4-hortizontal long-strokes, with 2 short-strokes, between the two long ones,
I (cuneiform) or a syllable with a vowel) to substitute one vowel for another. In the Amarna letters, the segue adverb ""now"", or "now, at this time", Akkadian language 'enūma', is seldom spelled with the 'e'; instead its spellings are typically: "anūma", "inūma", and sometimes "enūma". In both the Amarna letters and the "Epic of Gilgamesh" another common use of the "i" sign is for the preposition, Akkadian language "ina", spelled "i-na", for "in, into, for, etc.". (There is an alternate cuneiform sign for ina (cuneiform), a sub-variety use of aš (cuneiform), the single, horizontal stroke.) I (cuneiform) The cuneiform i sign