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Ugaritic, another Semitic language, was also written in cuneiform.
It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.
Cuneiform writing thus served different functions; that is, from its original use for pictograms, it became stylized to the point where the images were unrecognizable without decoding.
The Hittites, who spoke a language with some Indo-European characteristics, also wrote in cuneiform, as did the speakers of Old Persian, a true Indo-European language.
The first known graphic system, cuneiform, served as the common vehicle of expression for not only Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Ugaritic, but also Elamite, Hurrian, Old Persian, and Hittite.