GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first language they do write is Sumerian. With possible exceptions in the late first millennium BC, the cuneiform script only writes syllables (a, ba, al, bal).

Detailed explanation-3: -First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means “wedge-shaped, ‘’ because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet. Letters enclosed in clay envelopes, as well as works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh have been found.