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by davorb 3620 days ago
> for us to go from writing with only consonants to using vowels for the first time

Speaking as someone who has studied cuneiform and Akkadian, I would say that this claim isn't true. Here's a vowel that predates the period that you mentioned[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(cuneiform)