Most historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 and 4000 BC by a West Asian people who spoke the Sumerian language ( pointing to the names of cities , rivers , basic occupations , etc. , as evidence ) , a non- Semitic and non- Indo-European agglutinative language isolate .
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