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sumer (version 1.4.0)

Sumerian Cuneiform Text Analysis

Description

Provides functions for converting transliterated Sumerian texts to sign names and cuneiform characters, creating and querying dictionaries, analyzing the structure of Sumerian words, and creating translations. Includes a built-in dictionary and supports both forward lookup (Sumerian to English) and reverse lookup (English to Sumerian).

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Install

install.packages('sumer')

Monthly Downloads

459

Version

1.4.0

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Robin Wellmann

Last Published

March 22nd, 2026

Functions in sumer (1.4.0)

grammatical_structure

Grammatical Structure of a Sumerian Expression

Look Up Sumerian Signs or Search for Translations

Mark N-gram Combinations in Cuneiform Text

make_dictionary

Create a Sumerian Dictionary from Annotated Text Files

merge_dictionaries

Merge Two or More Sumerian Dictionaries

ngram_frequencies

Frequency Analysis of Cuneiform Sign Combinations (N-grams)

mark_skeleton_entries

Normalize Brackets for Skeleton Generation

guess_substr_info

Look Up Translations for All Substrings of a Sumerian Text

Retrieve Information About Sumerian Signs

init_substr_info

Initialize a Data Frame of All Substrings

read_translated_text

Read Annotated Sumerian Translations from Text Files

read_dictionary

Read a Sumerian Dictionary from File

plot_sign_grammar

Stacked Bar Chart of Grammatical Type Frequencies

save_dictionary

Save a Sumerian Dictionary to File

Grammatical Type Frequencies for Each Sign in a Sumerian Sentence

Prior Probabilities of Grammatical Types

substr_position

Compute Row Index of a Substring in a Substring Data Frame

Split a String into Sumerian Signs and Separators

Interactive Translation Tool for Sumerian Text

Create a Translation Template for Sumerian Text

Line-by-Line Translation of a Sumerian Text

Evaluate an Operator or Composition

apply_translation_rules

Apply Translation Rules to a Bracketed Structure String

convert_to_dictionary

Convert Translation Data to a Sumerian Dictionary

extract_skeleton_entries

Extract Hierarchical Skeleton Entries from Bracketed Text

compose_skeleton_entry

Compose a Skeleton Entry from its Children

fill_substr_info

Read Back a Saved Translation into a Substring Data Frame

Posterior Probabilities of Grammatical Types for Each Sign

Add Brackets to a Structure String

Convert Transliterated Sumerian Text to Cuneiform

Convert Transliterated Sumerian Text to Sign Names