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² The bibliography before 1932 has been summarized by Christian, V. in his Die sprachliche Stellung des Sumerischen (1932)Google Scholar; for additions, including another book by Christian 1957), see Hallo, W. W., Bibliotheca Orientalis, xviii, 1–2, 1961, 60Google Scholar. The reviewer has not collected bibliographical items systematically, and he is at a loss to say whom Bálint, Cs., ‘Már megint és még mindig a sumérosok’ (‘Over and again and always the “Sumerists”’), Tiszatāj, xxvii, 3, 1973, 76–9Google Scholar (cited in ‘Keilschriftbibliographie 35’, no. 102, Orientalia, XLIII, 3–4, 1974), is referring to.Google Scholar

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