c. 2800–300 BC
(Later unwritten forms might have survived until 1000 AD?)
Language family
Language isolate
Early form
language of Proto-Elamite?
Writing system
Linear Elamite, Elamite cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-2
elx
ISO 639-3
elx
Linguist List
elx
Glottolog
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Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites. It was recorded in what is now southwestern Iran from 2600 BC to 330 BC.[1] Elamite works disappear from the archeological record after Alexander the Great entered Iran, but the spoken language might have survived until the 11th century AD.[citation needed] Elamite is generally thought to have no demonstrable relatives and is usually considered a language isolate. The lack of established relatives makes its interpretation difficult.[2]
A sizeable number of Elamite lexemes are known from the Achaemenid royal inscriptions – bilingual or trilingual inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire, in which Elamite was written using Elamite cuneiform (circa 400 BC), which is fully deciphered. An important dictionary of the Elamite language, the Elamisches Wörterbuch was published in 1987 by W. Hinz and H. Koch.[3][4] The Linear Elamite script however, one of the scripts used to write the Elamite language circa 2000 BC, has remained elusive until recently.[5]
^Stolper 2004, pp. 60–64
^Gragg 2009, p. 316
^Hinz & Koch 1987a
^Hinz & Koch 1987b
^Desset, François (2018). "Linear Elamite writing". The Elamite World: 397. doi:10.4324/9781315658032-21. ISBN 978-1-315-65803-2. in Álvarez-Mon, Basello & Wicks 2018, pp. 405–406
Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites. It was recorded in what is now...
Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamitelanguage. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The...
inscriptions. It was used contemporaneously with Elamite cuneiform and records the Elamitelanguage. The French archaeologist François Desset [fr] and...
ancient civilization in modern-day south-western Iran. The earliest known Elamite dynasty was the Awan dynasty, which came to power in the Early Dynastic...
another macrofamily called Dené–Caucasian. Another notional isolate, the Elamitelanguage, also figures in a number of Nostratic classifications. In 1987 Joseph...
write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian...
Proto-Elamite script the Indus script (speculated to record a "Harappan language") Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A (encoding a possible "Minoan language")...
Samsu-iluna, and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. After the Assyrians had destroyed and then rebuilt it, Babylon...
as ad hoc. Elamite is generally believed by scholars to be a language isolate, and the theory has had no effect on studies of the language. In 2012, Southworth...
Old Persian cuneiform script first, followed by the Babylonian and Elamitelanguage versions using the trilingual inscriptions. Van (V) Uruk Ur Hamadan...
documents written in the Elamitelanguage and Babylonian language, it was thought that Chedorlaomer is a transliteration of the Elamite compound Kudur-Lagamar...
uncertain origin but is considered identical to the name Marduka or Marduku (Elamite: 𒈥𒁺𒋡), attested as the name of up to four Persian court officials in...
Darius built were often inscribed in the official languages of the Persian Empire, Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian and Egyptian hieroglyphs. To construct...
of 27 lines of writing in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian. The inscription reads the same in each language. A translation into English reads: "A great...
non-Semitic language isolate that displays a Sprachbund-type relationship with neighbouring Semitic Akkadian Elamitelanguage: a non-Semitic language isolate...
Sabarian Uruttu). The Elamite, Akkadian, and possibly Sumerian forms are suggested to be from an unrecorded substrate language. Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and...
languages, including Alak and Jru'. (Onset-rime script) Linear Elamite – Elamitelanguage Paleohispanic semi-syllabaries – Paleo-Hispanic languages Celtiberian...
site to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Elamitelanguage is a language isolate Chogha Zanbil is typically translated as 'basket mound...
contemporary inscriptions, by added later inscriptions (mostly in the Elamitelanguage where the name was rendered Ma-an-iš-du-uz-z) and, somewhat more controversial...
different languages between themselves and aberrant in its relationship to the other Borean phyla and language families) Sumerian Elamite Hurro-Urartian...
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