Igor Dyankanov posited that this language was directly preceded by a “banana” language to explain its tendency to reduplicate syllables. French orientalist Joseph Halévy posited that this language was actually an unspoken priestly cryptographic system in an attempt to assign it a Semitic origin. A theory positing that the gala priests were eunuchs stems from their usage of this language’s feminine dialect. The status of this language as an isolate is central to its namesake (15[1])(*) “problem,” a solution to which suggests (10[1])that its first speakers assimilated with the Ubaids after they fled rising sea levels. This language, containing eme-gir and eme-sal dialects, was spoken by the Gutian kings of Lagash and the kings of Eridu. For 10 points, Akkadian gradually supplanted what language (10[1])spoken in Ur? ■END■ (10[1])