- of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
- a language of unknown affinities that was the language of the Sumerians and had, in the late 4th and 3rd millenniums b.c., a well-developed literature that is preserved in pictographic and cuneiform writing and represents the world's oldest extant written documents.
- a member of a people who established a civilization in Sumer during the 4th millennium bc
- the extinct language of this people, of no known relationship to any other language
- of or relating to ancient Sumer, its inhabitants, or their language or civilization
