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".
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