WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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). It thus cannot be used to write individual consonants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cuneiform is not a language but a proper way of writing distinct from the alphabet. It doesn’t have ‘letters’ – instead it uses between 600 and 1, 000 characters impressed on clay to spell words by dividing them up into syllables, like ‘ca-at’ for cat, or ‘mu-zi-um’ for museum.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. First attested about 3100 bce in southern Mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium bce.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.