It's agglutinative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language), like Hungarian or Japanese: words are composed of strings of shorter morphemes which glue together. Morphemes can then be decoded individually. But the decipherment still took decades and extreme cleverness. More here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language#Decipherment).
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