Elaine wrote: >Under cuneiform go Sumerian, Akkadian (old Babylonian > and Assyrian), Hittite, Elamite and whatever..... > > Cuneiform had a long shelf life--3,400 B.C. to about 125 A.D.
You may be interested to know, if you don't already, that cuneiform is already being worked on. If you're interested, subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list (next to no postings in recent history). Sumerian, Akkadian, et al. are languages all of which use the same script, at various stages of its evolution. Ergo one encoding. K
