The Sumerians developed a writing system of wedge-shaped strokes which influenced the style of scripts in the fertile crescent for the next 3000 years. Over time all of the diverse writing systems, which encompass both logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic, and syllabic systems, became known as cuneiform.

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