Template:Script/Cuneiform/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Script/Cuneiform. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Template intended to force fonts that support the two Cuneiform Unicode blocks.

known fonts:

• Akkadian [1] (automatically provided as webfont if the Universal Language Selector is enabled)
• Noto Sans Cuneiform by Google [2]
• Santakku [3] (cursive Old Babylonian)
• Ullikummi A [4] (Hattic, Hittite, Luwian, Palaic)
• Assurbanipal [5] (Neo-Assyrian, Urartian)
• Esagil [6] (Neo-Babylonian)

Optionally, two parameters can be used. In this case, the first parameter is either

• a number from 1 to 12, specifying the historical stage preferred:
  1. archaic pictogram, around 3000 BC.
  2. rotated pictogram, around 2800 BC.
  3. abstracted glyphs in archaic monumental inscriptions, from ca. 2600 BC
  4. Classical Sumerian cuneiform as written in clay, from ca. 2600 BC
  5. Neo-Sumerian, late 3rd millennium BC
  6. Old Akkadian, late 3rd millennium BC
  7. Old Assyrian, early 2nd millennium BC
  8. Old Babylonian, early 2nd millennium BC, as adopted into Hittite.
  9. Middle Assyrian, late 2nd millennium BC
  10. Middle Babylonian, late 2nd millennium BC
  11. Neo-Assyrian, early 1st millennium BC
  12. Neo-Babylonian, late 1st millennium BC
  • This is so far supported only for (8), (11), and (12), for lack of fonts for the other stages.
• or the code ana for languages spoken in ancient Anatolia (Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Palaic).

For:

1. Ugaritic, use {{Script|Ugar|}}},
2. Old Persian cuneiform, use {{Script|Xpeo|}}}.

• {{cuneiform|8|𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑}} ak-ka-du-u₂ → 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑 ak-ka-du-u₂
• {{cuneiform|11|𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑}} ak-ka-du-u₂ → 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑 ak-ka-du-u₂
• {{cuneiform|12|𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑}} ak-ka-du-u₂ → 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑 ak-ka-du-u₂
• {{cuneiform|ana|𒉈𒅆𒇷}} ne-ši-li → 𒉈𒅆𒇷 ne-ši-li

This section is missing information about parameter 2 as described in § Usage. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (August 2025)

• List of cuneiform signs
• Hittite cuneiform
• {{transliteration}}