what was the form of writing for mesopotamia society?

Answer 1

Cuneiform

Answer 2

The earliest writing in Mesopotamia was a picture writing invented by the Sumerians who wrote on clay tablets using long reeds. The script the Sumerians invented and handed down to the Semitic peoples who conquered Mesopotamia in later centuries, is called cuneiform, which is derived from two Latin words: cuneus , which means "wedge," and forma , which means "shape." This picture language, similar to but more abstract than Egyptian hieroglyphics, eventually developed into a syllabic alphabet under the Semites (Assyrians and Babylonians) who eventually came to dominate the area.

Answer 3

"Cuneiform" (meaning "wedge-shaped") is the term used for the look of the symbols, based on the wedge-ended reed stylus used when writing in clay. (Other writings were incised in stone, which of course would not use a reed.)

But that doesn't tell us what the writing SYSTEM was. I was NOT, as another answer suggested, "letters". Rather, the symbols began in the late 4th millenium B.C. as pictographs and developed into a system of logograms (one symbol = one word) and syllables. Syllabic writing is NOT the same as alphabetic (though many suggest that the syllabary or Mesopotamia and/or the related system of Egyptian hieroglyphics inspired the development of the alphabet).

The writing system was developed for the Sumerian language, then adopted for the Semitic language known as "Akkadian" (you might call it "Assyro-Babylonian").

Answer 4

Mesopotamia is an area. There were several societies which grew up there and overcame each other and what not, but I think it is true tht cuneiform is the first we know of.

Answer 5

"cunieform" would seem to be it!!!it was performed by changing the edges of a "stylus" to make indentations in the surfaces of clay tablets which were then ;sometimes sealed inside another enevelope aof clay with an annotation telling what the tablet inside was with regards to!!! this was a mode of writing "pictograpghs" which became more and more "stylized" and brief and compound words were also formed combining two or more concepts or "radicals"!!!there were also many different dialects and regional languages;but the technique of "indenting" the texts in clay was technical the same!!chaldean,sumerian,and assyrian texts have been deciphered to a certain extent and much historical data has been recovered and translated yielding "king lists,conquest data,farming and tax data,religious rites and offerings...and the story of gilgamesh,also!!

Answer 6

It is called cuneiform. They would use a wedge shaped stylus to press different letters into clay block, then bake them.

Answer 7

Cuneiform were inscribed on clay tablets

Answer 8

they used cuneiform on clay tablets