I am looking for an extremely basic book on linguistics or linguistic terms used in the study of a language. Among my various and shallow interests is cuneiform. I tried to learn some cuneiform symbols via the Oriental Institute in Chicago (a correspondence course. Do you know how difficult it is to find something this about Ancient Assyrian or Sumerian????). It was very interesting but... there would use terms I didnt understand. Example, logographic, elements, logograms, also things d supra(I dont know to type this) dutu, ca sub(same thing here)1.