"wedge-writing" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1885, Johns Hopkins University Circulars - Volumes 4-8",
          "text": "The script in which the Assyrian texts are written is called cuneiform or wedge-writing because of its constituent elements: the horizontal, vertical and oblique wedge."
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          "ref": "1889, Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrian Grammar",
          "text": "The Assyro-Babylonian wedge-writing was originally a straight-line picture-writing.",
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          "ref": "1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems",
          "text": "Argillographic records are those written on clay, the medium of choice for wedge writing; nearly all Akkadian (cuneiform) records are preserved on clay; many of the wedge-abjad records of Ugaritic are also preserved on clay.",
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          "ref": "2013, Thomas H. Perdue, Mashiah Versus Anti-Mashiah",
          "text": "Our concern is that it came on the scene after the confusion of tongues and lasted a very short time, then Cuneiform or wedge-writing came into use.",
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          "ref": "2014, Nils Anfinset, Melanie Wrigglesworth, Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe",
          "text": "The term “evil eye” is known from Sumerian wedge writings from the third millennium bce.",
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