Proto-Euphratean language

The protoeuphratische language is considered by some Assyriologists (for example, Samuel Noah Kramer ) considered a hypothetical substrate language of the people, which has ( 5300-4700 BC) introduced in the early Obed- time agriculture in the territory of southern Iraq.

Benno Landsberger and other Assyriologists argue that one can surmise by examining the structure of Sumerian names of professions, place names and Hydronymen that there was once an earlier group of people in the region were, who had a completely different language - often referred to as protoeuphratische language referred to: - designations for " farmer ", " Meier ", " carpenter " and " date " seem to have no Sumerian or Semitic origin.

In the ( post-) Soviet linguistics, this substrate is referred to as "Banana languages ​​" due to the characteristic train some personal names in Sumerian texts, ie reduplication of syllables ( as in the English word banana ): Inanna, Zababa, Chuwawa, Bunene etc. this hypothesis was introduced by Igor Mikhailovich Djakonow Vladislav Ardzinba and connecting these hypothetical language with the Samarra culture.

Rubio criticized the substrate hypothesis, arguing that there is evidence of borrowing from more than one language. This view is now prevailing in the field ( Piotr Michalowski, Gerd Steiner, and others).