- 1蘇美的、蘇美人、蘇美語。台灣歷史課本說「蘇美人」「蘇美文明」；講楔形文字那套語言時說「蘇美語」。要注意的是蘇美語是「孤立語言」——跟已知的任何語系都沒有親屬關係，中文的「孤立語」這個詞另有語法上的意思（像中文這種少變化的語言），兩者不一樣，別搞混。
Of — its people, their language, their art, their cities, their gods. Used as an adjective: Sumerian temples, Sumerian pottery, Sumerian myths, the Sumerian king list. It is also a noun in two ways. A Sumerian is a person from . And Sumerian is their language — and this is the interesting part for anyone who likes languages. Sumerian is not related to any other language we know. Not to Arabic, not to Hebrew, not to Chinese, not to English. It has no living relatives at all; scholars call such a language an isolate. It stopped being spoken around 2000 BC, but priests and scribes went on writing it for nearly two thousand more years, the way Latin was kept alive in Europe long after people stopped speaking it in the street. Because they wrote on clay, we can still read it. Like all from place names, it always takes a capital letter.
組成Sumer + -ian. The ending -ian does the same job as -an: it turns a place or a person's name into "belonging to that". English adds the extra i after some names purely for sound.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sumerianadj/s(j)ʊˈmɪəɹiən/
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Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.
- "Could be. Anyway, Sumerian culture—the society based on me—was another manifestation of the metavirus. Expect that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA."
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Of, from or pertaining to lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Šumer in Akkadian.
Sumeriannoun/s(j)ʊˈmɪəɹiən/
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A person of Sumer.
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A native of lower Babylonia, called Šumer in Akkadian.
Sumerianname/s(j)ʊˈmɪəɹiən/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe ancient language spoken in Sumer, a language isolate.
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