Cuneiform Cuneiform Cuneiform or Sumerian cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name "cuneiform" itself simply means "wedge shaped". Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC (the Uruk IV period) to convey the Sumerian language, which was a language isolate, cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as
Ù (cuneiform) Ù (cuneiform) The cuneiform ù sign ('u, no. 3'), is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the "Epic of Gilgamesh". Its use is as a conjunction, (translated as for example: "and, but, else, until," etc.), but rarely it is substituted for "alphabetic u", but that vowel "u" is typically represented by 'u, no. 2', (u prime), ú; occasionally 'u, no. 1', (u (cuneiform)), , (mostly used for a conjunction, and "numeral 10"), is also substituted for the "alphabetic u". The use of "ù" is often as a "stand-alone" conjunction, for example between two listed items, but