Spoken by the people of the ancient Sumerian kingdom who lived in Mesopotamia. Its vocabulary, grammar and syntax do not seem to be related to any other known language.
It is the oldest written language of which there are graphic testimonies. The first inscriptions come from 3000 BC. and its alphabet is cuneiform. The existence of this language, and the culture it reveals, remained forgotten until the 19th century, when its alphabet was deciphered. The main Sumerian dialect was the emergir or "princely language", although there were others of lesser diffusion, used by women and eunuchs.
We are going to talk about one of the oldest cities in History -if not the oldest-, understanding as such those that have been inhabited continuously from its foundation to the present day. If I tell you that his name was Gubla, it wont sound familiar to most; if we look at its biblical name, Gebal,