Cuneiform was a syllabic language. It had words and structure. It wasn’t just “impressions of ideas” like pictographs. (Source: Near Eastern Archaeology was quite literally my university major)

So in no way am I referring only to “alphabetic” languages as you seem to imply. And Cuneiform is included in what I was talking about…language. Whether that’s writing the epic of Gilgamesh or giving someone the worlds first bad yelp review.

Saying words didn’t exist until indo-european alphabets emerged is frankly ridiculous.