Written Language
Babylonian and Assyrian scribes borrowed Sumerian ideograms and adapted them into a phonetic syllabary for recording their own Semitic speech, known collectively as Akkadian.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Literature in Bible Times by Milton C. Fisher, Page 101.)