Sumerian ceases to be a mother tongue

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1. Story
2. Sumerian appears to have stopped being transmitted as a first language during the early second millennium BCE, displaced by Akkadian, while continuing for well over a thousand years afterwards as a language of liturgy, scholarship and scribal training — the reason so much of it is recoverable, since Akkadian-speaking scribes compiled bilingual lexical lists to teach it. The date of the transition is inferred from the textual record and is debated among Assyriologists; it is given here as a period rather than a year.
3. Knowledge
4. The language isolate
5. Language death
6. Sumerian
7. Sumerian ceases to be a mother tongue
8. Connections
9. The language isolate
10. Sumerian
11. Language death
12. Language death
13. Basque (Euskara)
14. Sumerian
15. Glottolog
16. Sumerian ceases to be a mother tongue
17. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, third edition
18. The language isolate
19. Sumerian ceases to be a mother tongue
20. The comparative method
21. The language isolate
22. SIL International (Ethnologue)
23. Sumerian ceases to be a mother tongue
24. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, third edition
25. The International Decade of Indigenous Languages
26. Evidence
27. Supports the general account in this pack of the comparative method, the regularity principle, contact and borrowing, glottochronology and its critics, and the definition of a language isolate. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. No chapter or page is cited, because the book was not opened in this session; the citation identifies the work a curator should check the general account against. This is the source named in the Journey declaration.