I'm referring to Sumerian, too.

Sure, there's accountancy and protowriting like

  𒇻               𒐚
  sheep            six
  (pictogram of
  a sheep butt)

where it can be read entirely ideographically. Yes, there are ideograms and determinatives that are ideographic. But when you're building noun phrases and conjugating verbs, that's phonetic.

▲ Bluestein 18 hours ago | parent [-]

> 𒇻 (pictogram of a sheep butt)

Is this like the OG, millenary Goatse? (I mean, of all the things they could have picked to signify the poor thing ...)

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wl 18 hours ago | parent [-]

The butt is the most distinctive part of the breed of sheep kept in ancient Mesopotamia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_sheep

	▲	Bluestein 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
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