Proto-Cuneiform
Script details
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| Code | Pcun |
| Script type | logo-syllabary |
| Region | Middle Eastern |
| Status | Historical |
| Direction | unspecified |
| Baseline | unspecified |
| Case | unknown |
| White space | unspecified |
| Complex behaviors | |
| OpenType code | unspecified |
| ISO 15924 Numeric Code / Key | 015 (hieroglyphic/cuneiform) |
Script description
Proto-Cuneiform emerged towards the end of the fourth millennium B.C.
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in ancient Babylonia, a region of Mesopotamia that corresponds with the southern part of modern-day Iraq. This was a pictographic script. The signs were usually made on the soft surface of clay tablets with a stylus made from a reed. The clay tablets were then dried and hardened. Many such tablets have been found in archeological excavations in Uruk (Al Warka in present-day Iraq).
Languages that use this script
There are no known languages that use this script.
Unicode status
The Proto-Cuneiform script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+12580..U+12ECF in the Roadmap to the SMP
for the Unicode Standard.
Resources
- ScriptSource page for Proto-Cuneiform - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems
- Wikipedia article on Proto-Cuneiform