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Alamar cuneiform don syllAB ab kuma tana wakiltar cewa don ap, ko wasali da amfani da ma'ana na a, b, ko p: a cikin Harshen Akkadian "b" ba shi da numfashi, an kafa shi da leɓuna, kuma "p" yana da numfashi. A cikin harshen Akkadian "b" da "p" suna musayar; Hakanan, a cikin matani na cuneiform, kowane wasali (a, e, i ko u: babba "o" a cikin Akkadian) ana iya musayar shi da wani. Alamar ab / ap kuma tana da amfani mai mahimmanci (majuscule) a matsayin sumerogram, kamar yadda aka samu a cikin Epic of Gilgamesh don AB, harshen Akkadian don š atta, ma'ana "tsofaffi".[1]

A cikin tarin haruffa na Amarna, inda ake samun ab / ap, sunayen sun fito ne daga marubutan haruffa zuwa Fir'auna, misali Labaya da Ayyab, a cikin duka biyun ana samun amfani da syllabic na "ab.

Lambobin amfani don alamar cuneiform "ab" a cikin Tablets I-XII na Epic of Gilgamesh sune kamar haka:  ab - 11, ap - 28 da sumerogram AB - 12. Don š atta, harshen Akkadian don dattijo, kawai rubutun biyu suna amfani da "AB"; wasu rubutun shida na š atta" sune syllabic / haruffa.

 Manazarta 

 Parpola, 1971. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Glossary, pp. 119-145, šību, p. 142.