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Sentence #2158188

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Vortarulo Vortarulo January 21, 2013 January 21, 2013 at 8:22:04 PM UTC link Permalink

SUMERIAN

Transliteration: <ugu iri-ba dungu giggi im-mi-in-dib-bé-eš>
Morphemes: ugu iri(=ak)=bi=a dungu giggi=ø i=mu=n(i)=dib=eš
Glossing: over city(=GEN)=DEM=LOC cloud black=ABS ?=VENT=LOC=pass=3PL.ABS
Pronunciation: /ugu iriba dungu giggi imindibeš/ (perhaps)

Eldad Eldad January 22, 2013 January 22, 2013 at 6:12:14 PM UTC link Permalink

Is there any browser that can present the sentence properly?
I only see tiny rectangles with various numbers inside.

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo January 22, 2013 January 22, 2013 at 6:16:36 PM UTC link Permalink

@Vortarulo, where can I download that font?

Eldad Eldad January 22, 2013 January 22, 2013 at 6:18:57 PM UTC link Permalink

@Alex,
Is Sumerian one of the items on your to-do list? ;-)

Vortarulo Vortarulo January 22, 2013 January 22, 2013 at 6:20:42 PM UTC link Permalink

I wanted to accumulate some more sentences and then make a wall-post. Actually you only need a special font for it. A Unicode font that supports cuneiform characters. The font I use is named "Akkadian":
http://www.fonts2u.com/akkadian.font

Please tell me, if it worked. :)

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo January 22, 2013 January 22, 2013 at 10:04:46 PM UTC link Permalink

@Vortarulo
Yes, it works; and it's incredibly beautiful. Congratulations for your effort!

@Eldad
No, it isn't (at least not yet). Is it one of yours?

Eldad Eldad January 22, 2013 January 22, 2013 at 10:06:35 PM UTC link Permalink

No, it isn't ;-)
At the moment I have quite a long list, and Portuguese is one of the items (there are also others).
Cuneiform sentences are still way down the list...

cueyayotl cueyayotl January 29, 2016 January 29, 2016 at 1:37:56 AM UTC link Permalink

I would recommend spacing between characters.

Maybe:
π’Œ‹π’…— π’Œ· 𒁀 π’…Žπ’‹›π’€€ π’ˆͺ π’…Ž π’ˆͺ π’…” 𒁳 𒁉 π’Œ

Without spacing between π’Œ‹π’…— (ugu) and π’…Žπ’‹›π’€€ (dungu), as they are actually just 'one' character, so that it is easier to identify for learners.

cueyayotl cueyayotl January 29, 2016, edited January 29, 2016 January 29, 2016 at 2:04:37 AM UTC, edited January 29, 2016 at 2:14:26 AM UTC link Permalink

When people type it nowadays, some write it completely without spaces, and others write it with spaces, save for the characters that are actually complex combinations of smaller components that have not yet been added to Unicode. An example of a character that was added to the last Unicode version is 𒍼 (see #2166768). It is actually a combination of π’ˆͺ and π’‰­. You can see the images here:
𒍼 - psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/psl/img/thumb/Ocgy.png

π’ˆͺ - psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/psl/img/popup/Obwb.png
π’‰­ - psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/psl/img/popup/Ohup.png

The owner of the sentence could do either, but it would definitely be easier for comprehension purposes to put spaces, as in this site:
http://weaveworld.org/android/sumerian/index.html

cueyayotl cueyayotl February 1, 2016 February 1, 2016 at 12:56:13 AM UTC link Permalink

That's a good point, and maybe it should be made known to all contributors of Japanese sentences that such sentences should be discouraged.

This case, however, is a bit different. Writing in this way, with disregard to which characters form individual characters or parts of larger characters, I feel, is equivalent to writing Japanese with left-right radicals separated into two different characters. (Ex: 私->禾厢)

Again, since both input methods are used by linguists and on-line communities, the owner of the sentence could legally keep it as is, or change it; it is his choice.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #405833Black clouds were passing above the city..

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added by Vortarulo, January 21, 2013

linked by Vortarulo, January 21, 2013

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