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cuneiformcu‧nei‧form /ˈkjuːnifɔːm, ˈkjuːni-əfɔːm $ kjuːˈniːəfɔːrm/ adjective cuneiformOrigin: 1600-1700 Probably from French cunéiforme, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’ + French -iforme ‘-iform’; from the shape of the letters - In addition to the cuneiform inscriptions of Old Persian, there was also a closely related liturgical language known as Avestan.
- The more systematic arrangement of the cuneiform symbols was largely the creation of Western scholars.
- There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets, long before Hipparchus.
- This makes them closer to the kana, Vai, Yi, cuneiform, and hieroglyphic systems.
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