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1. Grave Accent

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   Sumerian Cuneiform Analysis
   In Assyriology, the grave accent is used in certain conventions (though not universally) to denote the "e" vowel in Sumerian transliteration when it is known to originate from a guttural root that would otherwise have been transcribed with a barred 'e' ($\text{e}\text{/}$). The use of the grave accent in this context is an artifact of early 20th-century [German scholarship](/entries/german-scholarship/…