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Excerpt from The Amherst Tablets, Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F. S. A. At Didlington Hall, Norfolk; Texts of the Period Extending to and Including the Reign of Bûr-Sin (About 2500 B. C.) As the present collection shows, the language of Babylonia at the earliest period was non-semitic, and is generally called Sumerian, or, better, sumero-akkadian. It appears to be closely allied to certain turko-tataric and also Mongolian dialects, and was agglutinative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.