Cuneiform UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003) and Robert Englund. Rather than opting for a direct ordering by glyph shape and complexity, according to the numbering of an existing catalogue, the Unicode order of glyphs was based on the Latin alphabetic order of their "last" Sumerian transliteration as a practical approximation. 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".
Id (cuneiform) Id (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign id, also it, and with other sub-uses, including a sumerogram, Á, for Akkadian language "idu", is a common-use sign in the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. Letters ("d/t") are paired consonants in the Akkadian language ('voiced'/'unvoiced'), thus the other sub-uses of the sign are for "ed, et, eṭ, and iṭ". Cuneiform "id/it" can be a syllabic for "ed, et, eṭ, id, it, and iṭ", or an alphabetic for any of the constructs thereof. It is also has a sub-use for "á", as well as the sumerogram for "Á". Cuneiform "id/it"