Sumerian: Meaning and Definition of

Su•me•ri•an

1. of or pertaining to Sumer, its people, or their language.

1. a native or inhabitant of Sumer.
2. a language of unknown affinities that was the language of the Sumerians and had, in the late 4th and 3rd millenniumsb.c.,a well-developed literature that is preserved in pictographic and cuneiform writing and represents the world's oldest extant written documents.