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Jiang's preferred theory is that Sumerian was a Creole language invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages, analogous to Mandarin as a palace language created for communication among many groups.
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Jiang frames Sumerian origins as unresolved because Sumerian is a language isolate unlike the surrounding Semitic languages, with competing theories pointing to Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains, Arabia, or the Indus Valley.
Jiang's preferred theory is that Sumerian was a Creole language invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages, analogous to Mandarin as a palace language created for communication among many groups.
"...this problem because when we discovered cuneiform and we translated the Sumerian language, we discovered the spoken language is very different from the surrounding..."
"Okay? No one knows. There are different theories. One theory is the Sumerian people are people who came from Anatolia and settled in the..."
"Okay? So, these are the different theories. But then there's another theory. Okay? Which I think makes the most sense. Which is this. Sumerian..."
Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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