SUMERIANS

An article that will not be liked by many, but which still must be written.

I believe more than anyone else that the Sumerians (like anyone else) spoke a language of the Kartvelian family. I believe more than anyone else that the most ancient nation, even one not yet discovered, also spoke a language of the Kartvelian family. I believe that Adam and Eve spoke a language of the Kartvelian family. But I consider it premature to seriously analyze Sumerian texts.

Answer, why did we decide that the people we know as the Sumerians were called precisely "Sumerians"? Show me this name in any text in any cuneiform script, and explain why this word was read precisely as "Sumer"? By whom was it read? What languages ​​did the reader know? To what extent? Why is it spelled in Russian with "sh"? Are you sure it was not "s", or "ch", or "ts"? Why these vowels? Were they read, or were they "guessed"?

Did you know that the Epic of Gilgamesh was written only in the 7th century BC? Did you know that the life of Gilgamesh was "dated" only by the fact that on some tablet, which was supposedly dated of the third millennium, someone saw the alleged name of some king named "Bilgamesh"? Who saw it? Why "Bilgamesh"? What happened to the first letter then?

Do you know how they say "Nebuchadnezzar" in Russian? "Navukhdonosor". And in Akkadian? Nabukudurriutsur. Or Nabushadrezzar. In short, we do not have the name of this king. We have only a series of consonants (and even then, we need to check who and how established that these were precisely these consonants), which everyone not too lazy tries to combine into a name. I am sure that the same applies to the other supposedly read names and words.

Including the name of the Sumerian god Enki. Actually, this name is written "Ea" everywhere. Or "Haya". Or "Eya". In Sumerian, they also add "g" in brackets - "Enki(g). Nobody will give you a clear answer as to why we decided that such a god existed at all. A scientific answer, at least.

And you are also in a hurry to attribute Enki to Georgia and to Inguri in particular. Is there at least one mention that a god with such a name was worshiped in Georgia? Where is Inguri, and where is Mesopotamia? Someone (it is not known who) wrote that the temple of Enki is "called" (it is not known in what language) E-en-gur-a. And everyone repeated in chorus, "oh, that is our Inguri!" Do you know that the alternative reading of "E-en-gur-a" is "E-abzu"? How can the same word be read so differently? This is only if the "reader" has a mess in his head. So far we have Inguri (Enguri too, but in all sources the river appears exactly as "Inguri"). And also its relative "Ingul" in Kartvelian-speaking Ukraine.

The suffixes "-ul" and "-ur" are Georgian adjective suffixes known to everyone. There is no need to prove anything here. "Inga" is "raspberry". This is also a word from the Georgian dictionary. Don't shove any Enki in here until you have historical grounds for it.

And don't rush to stick your nose into the Sumerian paradigm, where everything is written with a pitchfork on the water. We don't even have clear grounds to consider "Sumerians" a scientific term, despite tons of literature written. If I'm wrong, then where is the Sumerian dictionary? Who compiled it? How? Where is the Akkadian dictionary? Where is the Assyrian dictionary? Where, at last, is the ancient Egyptian dictionary?

Just one simple example. All those brilliant scientists who allegedly read us the ancient Egyptian, Akkadian, Sumerian and Hittite texts, did they take into account that all these texts should have had an ergative construction with the ending of the ergative case, typical only of the Kartvelian languages? Moreover, this phenomenon should have been widespread. Did Bendrich Grozny, who has "read" the Hittite texts and even attributed both the Hittites and the Luwians to the Indo-Europeans, write us anything about this? We now have every reason to believe that practically all ancient languages ​​must belong to the Kartvelian language family. Did Champollion even bother to leaf through the grammar of the Georgian language? There must be a huge number of words in the ancient Egyptian texts (especially toponyms) beginning with "Sa-". Did Champollion know that this is a prefix? Did he know that the root sits in the middle of such a word? If he did not know this (and an enormous amount of other knowledge), then how did he "decipher" the ancient Egyptian language for us?

Until all these languages ​​are read anew, and exclusively by kartvelologists, there is no need to rush at any Enki. In the correctly read ancient texts there will be a huge number of kartvelisms. No need to chase Enki, who was generously presented to us by the Western "historical linguists" who know nothing about Kartvelology. Every second word in their native language is Georgian, they do not know this, but they are quick to read Sumerian texts. And you are helping them.

First, sort out the things that are much closer and much more obvious and scientific. Sort out the kartvelisms in Ukraine. In Spain. In Italy. In Greece. In Turkey. In India. Sort out Troy. There is a lot of clearly recorded material here. There is enough work for years. Why do you need Enki now? People explain the Kartvelian nature of Sumerian words with great deal of inspiration. Now someone explain where we got these words for analysis.

All this harms kartvelology. This is one of the reasons why the center of Caucasian studies in Jena is closing. We will get to the Sumerians one day, but let's do it gradually.