Abstract
Abstract Discussions that seek to determine a distinction between and secular frequently make use of both verbal and non-verbal evidence. But what seems obvious for present-day observations is not necessarily applicable to languages that have survived in a purely written form.While the Sumerian language variety Emesal can be characterized as sacred language with no difficulty, normal Sumerian, which was used to write literary and everyday-life texts in Southern Mesopotamia until the 20th cent. BCE needs more detailed consideration. Though it appears simple to distinguish texts of everyday-life from literary texts, it is less simple to track down the nature in these literary texts. Since archaeological and speech contexts are oftenwanting, the non-verbal evidence will be left aside in the course of this paper, while strictly linguistic parameters will be followed instead. The paper starts with a general discussion of language. It then focuses on two text exa...
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