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Elamite, also known as Hatamtite, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites. It was used in present-day southwestern Iran from 2600 BC to 330 BC. Elamite works disappear from the archeological record after Alexander the Great entered Iran. Elamite is generally thought to have
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See moreTwo early scripts of the area remain undeciphered but plausibly have encoded Elamite:
• Proto-Elamite is the oldest known writing system from Iran. It was used during a brief period of time (c....
See moreThe history of Elamite is periodised as follows:
• Old Elamite (c. 2600–1500 BC)
• Middle Elamite (c. 1500–1000 BC)
• Neo-Elamite (1000–550 BC)...
See moreElamite is agglutinative but with fewer morphemes per word than, for example, Sumerian or Hurrian and Urartian and it is mostly suffixing.
Nouns
The Elamite nominal system is thoroughly pervaded by a...
See moreElamite is an agglutinative language, and its grammar was characterized by a well-developed and pervasive nominal class system. Animate nouns have separate markers for first, second and third person, a rather unusual feature. It can be said to display a kind of
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See moreBecause of the limitations of the language's scripts, its phonology is not well understood.
Its consonants included at least stops /p/, /t/ and /k/, sibilants /s/, /ʃ/ and /z/ (with an uncertain pronunciation), nasals /m/ and /n/, liquids /l/ and /r/ and...
See moreNominal heads are normally followed by their modifiers, but there are occasional inversions. Word order is subject–object–verb (SOV), with indirect objects preceding direct
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See moreElamite is regarded by the vast majority of linguists as a language isolate, as it has no demonstrable relationship to the neighbouring Semitic languages, Indo-European languages, or to Sumerian, despite having adopted the Sumerian-Akkadian
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