Inscription by Entemena of Lagash - Sumerian Language Spoken

2400 BCE border dispute between Lagash and Umma.
*Error: "kana pera" ("field measure," rather than "measure field")
My translation of the Sumerian is rather clunky / literal. I've never formally studied it. Just experimenting with the rendering the phonology and analyzing the cuneiform text in this video, mostly.

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Idiomatic English:

Enlil, king of all the lands, father of all the gods,
by his firm command, fixed the border between Ningirsu and Shara.

Mesilim, king of Kish, at the command of Ishtaran,
measured the field and set up a stele there.

Ush, ruler of Umma, acted unspeakably.
He ripped out that stele and marched toward the plain of Lagash.

Ningirsu, warrior of Enlil, at his just command, made war with Umma.

At Enlil's command, he threw his great battle net over it
and heaped up burial mounds for it on the plain.

Eannatum, ruler of Lagash, uncle of Entemena, ruler of Lagash
fixed the border with Enakale, ruler of Umma

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The Sumerian word "Etin" / "Eten" ("Edin, "Eden") meaning "plain, steppe, garden" may correspond to the name of the Biblical Garden of Eden,עֵדֶן (ʕ)eden ~ or the Hebrew could be from a Proto-Semitic root meaning "delight, pleasure."

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Been a year since my last upload. I hope to be more active in making content.

Possible upcoming projects:
- Middle Egyptian
- Hittite
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Classical Latin (or maybe Proto-Italic)
- Proto-Uralic (or Proto-Finno-Ugric)

[LadySeraphineCC]

The fact that the language of one the first civilizations is still preserved makes so happy. That despite all of what mankind has done to forget or destroy these things. They still thrive 🥰

[desimujahid]

You're back finally!
Can you recite other ancient languages like Ancient Egyptian and Hittite?

[thetriumphofthethrill]

Nice, good to hear the ancient language spoken.

[johannahidalgo]

I’ve been looking for this content, love to hear ancient Egyptian!😉👍😻

[pachomiussinanicus]

really wants more sumerian spoken video

[CrossFire]

Glad to see you back! I admit that your rendition of this took me off guard a little, compared to other renditions of Sumerian that I've heard. I imagined that the unaspirated stops would have been pronounced much more lenis and somewhat indistinguishable from voiced stops (like the unaspirated stops in Mandarin, which work similarly). That's not really an issue though, considering the ambiguity of cuneiform pronunciation.
Perhaps you could do a reading of Middle Chinese or Vedic Sanskrit in the future?

[RXY]

I was wondering if there would be any new comments referencing the recent Bronze Age memes. Surprised to find none.

[pachomiussinanicus]

maybe u can produce a video of Old Chinese video in future

[axelnilsson]

Proto-Finno-Ugric sounds very interesting since modern Finnish is so conservative, but it has lost the palatalized sounds however. The extensive early borrowing from baltic and proto-germanic is also interesting. Many loanwords are older than the textbook reconstructions like "hakea" that is from a pre-proto-germanic without grimm's law and the a/o merger, maybe with /ɒ:/ at the time.

[LionKing-ewrm]

Please do ancient Persian, or Avestan.!

[bugzyhardrada]

Dang i thought you quit.
Bloody good work you do.
So glad youre back.

I tried showing youre work to a couple a friends of mine, i just dont understand how people refuse to understand the significance of language and how it works and evolve's. It just baffles me.
Anyway looking forward to future content and wish you the very best of luck with it.
Ps. Just wondering, where are you from dude? And how on earth have you been able to learn all this, and how do i start or where do i start? 😁

[islandbuoy]

the story gets even more interesting IF you bother to acknowledge who FOUNDED Lagash and was the papa of Entemena?
*Ur-Nanshe also known as Ur-Nazi*

[matthewtopping]

I think the different colors on the text are unnecessary, since the casual viewer will have no idea what they stand for. Simply distracting.