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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus cuneiform signs were born. When they are first used there is so little grammar it is impossible to tell which language is being written. 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-2: -Cuneiform was first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia around 3, 500 B.C. The first cuneiform writings were pictographs created by making wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets with blunt reeds used as a stylus. Cuneiform isn’t a single writing system, however.