Okay okay before you rail me, the title is misleading to keep it concise. A small quiet village in Iraq is discovered wherein the population speaks "Sumerian". Obviously these people are not speaking ancient Sumerian, but a daughter language with over 2-3 millenia drift and some major substrating from Arabic and Aramaic (if that's even possible given how wildly different Sumerian grammar is from Semitic, but ... well, silim). However, it is 100% definitely descended from and resembles structurally a language that at least very much resembles what we know to be Sumerian, if not actual Sumerian itself. Probably a colloquial variant that lived on long after the language died out past the Bronze Age Collapse. The village can be discovered at any time past 1970. The language is endangered, although many adults still speak it, even though the younger generation is leaning more towards Arabic.
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