Sumer Place Names in India

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Source: Atlas of Philosophy; Spaces and Ways of Thinking, Elmar Holenstein, Küre Publications, June 2015

Sumer is found as place name mostly in India. Sumerian was the first written language 5000 years ago. It was agglutinative language like Dravidian, Tamil and Turkic languages.

What is your idea about highest frequency of Sumer as place name in India?

Writing has started in Sumeria and philosophy has started in India by talkings without writing in deep past. And these civilisations seem to develop interactions via trade. While North India has Sumer prefixed place names, South India has similar language structures with Sumer.

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I came across 2 sources recently.

1-Sumer/Sumeriya as place name prefix in India
https://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/1083449-sumersumeriya-as-place-name-prefix-in-india/

2- Indus-Mesopotamia Relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Mesopotamia_relations

Sumer as a Place Name in India

Name	Region	Lat	Long	Elev ft.	Pop est
Sumer	Rajasthan	27.36	76.63	853	40797
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	23.64	78.36	1669	39579
Sumer	Uttar Pradesh	27.45	79.57	830	85208
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	24.85	77.67	1669	10328
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	24.69	77.53	1669	14030
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	24.44	77.69	1669	25733
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	24.35	77.97	1669	26224
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	23.64	77.88	1669	11067
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	23.78	78.20	1669	21913
Sumer	Madhya Pradesh	23.60	78.21	1669	10460
Sumer	Uttar Pradesh	27.68	81.15	396	57810
Sumer	Rajasthan	25.33	73.62	1240	28324
Sumer Chak	Bihar	25.55	85.14	164	697561
Sumer Ka Purwa	Uttar Pradesh	26.44	79.66	830	88979
Sumer Khera	Uttar Pradesh	27.16	80.57	830	64983
Sumera	Uttar Pradesh	28.Mar	78.09	830	88315
Sumera	Uttar Pradesh	27.58	77.89	830	70941
Sumera	Bihar	25.19	84.58	236	72627
Sumera	Bihar	25.11	85.05	255	111918
Sumera Daryapur	Uttar Pradesh	28.3	78.09	830	88315
Sumera One B	Uttar Pradesh	28.4	78.12	830	94631
Sumerabad	Uttar Pradesh	27.4	80.85	377	36790
Sumerapura	Uttar Pradesh	26.23	83.69	213	65140
Sumerbigha	Bihar	24.65	84.35	416	71049
Sumerbāgh	Uttar Pradesh	25.95	81.35	314	60508
Sumerdāngi	Madhya Pradesh	23.88	78.21	1669	22534
Sumerganj	Uttar Pradesh	26.50	81.21	377	64517
Sumerganj	Bihar	25.14	85.48	170	140016
Sumerganj	Uttar Pradesh	27.Eki	80.18	830	65954
Sumergarh	Uttar Pradesh	26.93	83.48	232	94412
Sumeri	Madhya Pradesh	24.19	77.28	1669	16660
Sumeri	Madhya Pradesh	25.15	79.93	830	30832
Sumeri Chhāpar	Bihar	26.39	84.15	219	155655
Sumeri Chhāpra	Bihar	26.21	84.18	213	136393
Sumeri Khera	Uttar Pradesh	26.51	81.15	367	74186
Sumeri ka Pura	Uttar Pradesh	25.53	81.83	259	159320
Sumeripur	Uttar Pradesh	25.91	82.40	265	152857
Sumerkāchhi	Madhya Pradesh	23.89	78.23	1669	23327
Sumerpara	Madhya Pradesh	26.29	78.35	830	38927
Sumerpatti Bechan	Uttar Pradesh	25.26	83.34	226	83144
Sumerpatty Bhichhuk	Uttar Pradesh	25.26	83.34	232	84946
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.83	79.02	830	109666
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.51	79.94	410	29003
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.61	79.60	830	73280
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.87	79.79	830	69892
Sumerpur	Madhya Pradesh	23.60	78.08	1669	10430
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.19	79.07	830	97284
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.9	79.16	830	72670
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.28	80.80	396	59336
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.42	81.70	374	54064
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.14	81.77	387	62741
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.33	81.07	364	57197
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.24	81.56	387	58838
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.20	81.84	324	84028
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.5	82.35	314	65143
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.60	82.39	291	78248
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.36	82.28	298	88028
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.49	82.39	305	100903
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.21	83.24	295	72517
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	26.24	83.05	232	162579
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	25.73	81.87	269	72363
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	25.38	81.96	239	149832
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.8	80.69	830	51422
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	28.1	78.04	830	39220
Sumerpur	Uttar Pradesh	27.4	80.10	403	67187
Sumerpur Abbal	Madhya Pradesh	24.12	77.60	1683	13450
Sumerpur Barka	Bihar	25.27	83.62	196	63745
Sumerpur Chhotka	Bihar	25.28	83.61	203	62987
Sumeru Pipra	Bihar	24.65	85.12	396	65486
Sumerākhera	Madhya Pradesh	23.26	76.07	1669	25859
Sumerāpur	Uttar Pradesh	25.33	82.79	275	27714

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Sumer/Sumeriya as place name prefix in India

By Guest guest
June 9, 2001 in The Hinduism Forum

Posted June 9, 2001

Indo-Mesopotamia relations – Wikipedia

Red coloured areas are Dravidian languages

Turkish and Tamil Languages

Tamil Mother and Daughter in Coimbatore, Tamil Region in India

I just returned from a 15-day business trip in Tamil Nadu, India.

When I asked how to say Turkish ANNE (mother) in Tamil, I learned that it was ANEY.
I asked how to say Turkish ANNEANNE (grandmother) and this time my curiosity grew when she said ANEY ANEY.

I also learned that the Tamils had moved south under the pressure of the Aryans. So, it must have been that while the Tamils were in the north of India, we were there (Hephthalites, Kushans), so our languages interacted.

Of course, there are many more things that interacted. (March 2017, Levent Ağaoğlu)

Indus Valley and Sumeria/Sumerians

The evolution of writing systems is also an important indicator for the disclosure of
migration routes. The migration routes extend far beyond Mesopotamia. Here is the map.

The symbolism of the sacred ibex can be followed in almost all of these regions, as a cultural indicator to the Central Asiatic origins. On several pots and broken pottery pieces from the Indus Valley and surrounding regions typical motifs of ibexes, gazelles and antelopes are found.

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Sumer is a word I am not familiar with. From the list provided none of the places are in South India. My ear is familiar with the South Indian languages but Sumer does not ring a bell. The only word that comes closest in my opinion is Sumeru, often used as a name and sometimes used along with a suffix. (Santosh John, India)

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Aråa/Āråa BŚS, in the general area of the Panjab, next to Parśu and Gandhåri. The
word is interesting as a possible reflex of Sumerian Aratta, (east of the Zagros mountains, apparently the land of lapis lazuli, i.e. Badaxšån, north of the Hindukush)

Source: Aryan and non-Aryan Names in Vedic India.Data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900-500 B.C..

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Samar

The name of the city Samarqand (ΪϨϗήϤγ) has etymology traced from the Sanskrit smarya – “meeting”, “place of meeting” [Мɚsson 1950: 157], the Avestan Zmar-kanta “hidden under ground”, or the Sogdian Smara-kanta “stone’city” [Tremblay 2004: 130-131]. In the 11th century it was thought that the name of the city comes from the Türkic Samizkand (ΪϨϛΰϤγ), which means “fat city” [Bir 1973: 471; MK I: 330].

Per the legend, Samarqand was named after its founder, a Yemen king Samar ibn Afriqish or Shamar ibn al-Harith [Kan: 240-241; MW: 53], or a Türkic khan by the name Samar (ήϤγ) [AT: 16]. On the European maps of the 13th century is mentioned the city Samarcha or Samarcan in Khazaria [Chekin 1989: 8-10].

The name of Samar (ήϤγ) or Samur (ήϤγ) during the Middle Ages also carried the river in the Western Urals [IFad: 66; Sho: 161], city Samur (ήϤγ) in Turkistan [HA: 88], the river (Samur) in Elburs mountains [Yaz: 1666], and the right tributary (Samar or Samur) of the river Selenga in Siberia [RD I: 176; Bak:107]. Name of this river (Samar/Samur), like the other rivers of this region (Yaik, Ijik, Idil, Ertish, etc.),most likely have Türkic origin.

The origin of this hydronym has etymology from the Türkic ethnonym Subar with phonetic variations Suar, Sumer, Samar, Savir, Sabir, Sibir, etc. [Zekiyev 2002: 425-432]. The
Ural-Altai peoples of the Middle Asia, Ural and Siberia have an ethnonym Saman/Shaman/Samai/Samar,with the origin traced to the southern regions, from where it was brought the Altai linguistic community in the extreme antiquity [Vasilevich 1965: 139-145]. Source: Ancient Turkic toponmys of the Middle Asia. Shamsiddin Kamoliddin