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) in the 25 are: a (cuneiform), i (cuneiform), and ia (cuneiform), ("ia" which has a secondary use as suffix, ""-mine"", or ""my"", thus in top 25 most used signs). Suffix ""iYa"" is used in the Middle East\Southwest Asia at present day to end placenames, or other names: "My Xxxxx". Usage numbers of "ù" in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is as follows: ù-(84); Buccellati's usage numbers (330 Amarna letters) is (1848). Scribal variants of "ù" exist, and especially in the Amarna letters. At least one Amarna letter, EA 367, (Pharaoh to Endaruta), has an atypical variant, but the entire letter has