A Note About the Sumerian LanguageThe proto-Indo-European language used by the Assurians is 5,500 years old. Unlike ancient Egyptian, which survived thanks to the Coptic church so we can figure out what their hieroglyphics probably sounded like, spoken Sumerian died out more than 2,500 years ago. The last known high-mass was spoken around 600 B.C.
There is this distressing tendency to assume 'high fantasy' means everybody has to walk around sounding like a bad imitation of Thor from the Avengers or Hobbits from the Shire. This story harkens from a much more ancient school of storytelling, the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of Enoch, and even earlier story-fragments dating back as far as 10,000 B.C.
If you've ever tried to read Gilgamesh or the Dead Sea Scrolls in their non-paraphrased fo
