The Sumerian language is generally regarded as a language isolate in linguistics because it belongs to no known language family; Akkadian, by contrast, belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. There have been many failed attempts to connect Sumerian to other language groups. It is an agglutinative language; in other words, morphemes ("units of meaning") are added together to create words, unlike analytic languages where morphemes are purely added together to create sentences. Some authors have proposed that there may be evidence of a sub-stratum or add-stratum language for geographic features and various crafts and agricultural activities, called variously Proto-Euphratean or Proto Tigrean, but this is disputed by others. COUNT 5
QSN1 Akkadian's language can be traced to the Semitic branch of what languages? ANS1 Afroasiatic QSN2 Why is the Sumerian language usually thought of as a language isolate in linguistics? ANS2 belongs to no known language family QSN3 In Sumerian, what are morphemes added together to create? ANS3 words QSN4 What has been the result of attempts to connect Sumerian to other language groups? ANS4 failed QSN5 What are morphemes? ANS5 "units of meaning"