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    Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Scythic, Median, Amardian, Anshanian and Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient...
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    Elam (redirect from Elamites)
    when the Elamite language remained among those in official use. Elamite is generally considered a language isolate unrelated to any other languages. In accordance...
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  • Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The...
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    The Proto-Elamite script is an early Bronze Age writing system briefly in use before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities...
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    inscriptions. It was used contemporaneously with Elamite cuneiform and records the Elamite language. The French archaeologist François Desset [fr] and...
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    The Elamo-Dravidian language family is a hypothesised language family that links the Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran,...
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    The Proto-Elamite period, also known as Susa III, is a chronological era in the ancient history of the area of Elam, dating from c. 3100 BC to 2700 BC...
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    ancient civilization and kingdom in south-western Iran. The earliest known Elamite dynasty was the Awan dynasty, which came to power in the Early Dynastic...
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    another macrofamily called Dené–Caucasian. Another notional isolate, the Elamite language, also figures in a number of Nostratic classifications. In 1987 Joseph...
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    write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian...
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    Anshan (Persia) (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    Anshan (Elamite cuneiform: 𒀭𒍝𒀭 Anzan; Sumerian: 𒀭𒊓𒀭𒆠 Ansanᴷᴵ, 𒀭𒊭𒀭𒆠 Anšanᴷᴵ) modern Tall-e Malyan (Persian: تل ملیان), also Tall-i Malyan, was...
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    Susa (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    SOO-sə; Middle Elamite: 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗, romanized: Šušen; Middle and Neo-Elamite: 𒋢𒋢𒌦, romanized: Šušun; Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid Elamite: 𒀸𒋗𒐼𒀭, romanized: Šušan;...
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    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...
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    Babylon (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    Samsu-iluna, and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. After the Assyrians destroyed and then rebuilt it, Babylon...
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    Achaemenid royal inscriptions (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Old Persian cuneiform script first, followed by the Babylonian and Elamite language versions using the trilingual inscriptions. Van (V) Uruk Ur Hamadan...
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  • until they were overthrown by the invading Elamites. The rise of the Elamite Empire elevated the Elamite language and to prominence between 2600 and 330 BCE...
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    Darius the Great (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    Darius built were often inscribed in the official languages of the Persian Empire, Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian and Egyptian hieroglyphs. To construct...
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  • Dariush (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    Dāriūsh, Latin Dārīus, Dārēus, Greek Δαρεῖος Dareîos, Aramaic drwš, drywš, Elamite Da-ri-ya-(h)u-(ú-)iš, Akkadian Da-(a-)ri-muš, Egyptian tr(w)š, trjwš, intr(w)š...
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  • Proto-Elamite script the Indus script (speculated to record a "Harappan language") Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A (encoding a possible "Minoan language")...
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  • attempting to demonstrate a genetic relationship between Elamite language and the Dravidian languages. McAlpin is best known for a series of articles attempting...
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    Chedorlaomer (category Elamite kings)
    documents written in the Elamite language and Babylonian language, it was thought that Chedorlaomer is a transliteration of the Elamite name Kudur-Lagamar....
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    Euphrates (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    Sabarian Uruttu). The Elamite, Akkadian, and possibly Sumerian forms are suggested to be from an unrecorded substrate language. Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and...
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    Mordecai (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    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...
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    Darius (given name) (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    Ancient Greek: Δᾱρειαῖος (Dareiaîos) Imperial Aramaic: 𐡃𐡓𐡉𐡄𐡅𐡔 (Dryhwš) Elamite: Da-ri-(y)a-ma-u-iš Akkadian: Da-(a-)ri-ia-(a-)muš Shorter forms include:...
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    Fertile Crescent (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    non-Semitic language isolate that displays a Sprachbund-type relationship with neighbouring Semitic Akkadian Elamite language: a non-Semitic language isolate...
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    List of writing systems (category Lists of languages)
    remain) Linear Elamite – Elamite language Paleohispanic semi-syllabaries – Paleo-Hispanic languages Celtiberian script – Celtiberian language Northeastern...
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    contemporary inscriptions, by added later inscriptions (mostly in the Elamite language where the name was rendered Ma-an-iš-du-uz-z) and, somewhat more controversial...
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    depicted. Bronze was known. In Shahr-i Sokhta were found texts in Elamite language providing evidence with connections to the west of the Iran. There...
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    Xerxes I inscription at Van (category Elamite language)
    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...
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    Ecbatana (category Articles containing Elamite-language text)
    romanized: Ahmadān; Late Babylonian Akkadian: 𒆳𒀀𒃵𒋫𒉡, romanized: ᴷᵁᴿAgamtanu; Elamite: 𒀝𒈠𒆪𒈾, romanized: Agmadana; Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡇𐡌𐡕𐡀, romanized: Aḥməṯā;...
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