Elamite

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Elamite is an ancient language of southwestern Iran, historically used in the kingdom of Elam and later as an administrative language under the Achaemenid Empire.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Elamite canonical 14
Elamite language 13
Elamite civilization 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Elamite language
ancient language
language
approximateEndTime 1st millennium BCE
approximateStartTime 3rd millennium BCE
attestedIn Persepolis Fortification tablets
Persepolis Treasury tablets
administrative tablets
royal inscriptions
countryModernEquivalent Iran
era Bronze Age
Iron Age
geneticRelation no widely accepted relation to other language families
hasWritingPhase Middle Elamite
Neo-Elamite
linked to: Neo-Elamite period

Old Elamite
linked to: Old Elamite period
ISO639-3 elx
languageFamily language isolate
linguisticClassification one of the primary ancient languages of the Iranian Plateau
morphologicalType agglutinative
notableInscriptionSite Persepolis
Susa
officialStatus one of the official languages of the Achaemenid Empire
phonologicalType consonant-vowel syllable structure dominant
region Elam
southwestern Iran
role administrative language
scriptOrigin adapted from Mesopotamian cuneiform
scriptType cuneiform script
logo-syllabic script
status extinct
usedAlongside Akkadian
Aramaic
Old Persian
usedBy Elamites
linked to: Elam
usedFor economic records
legal documents
royal correspondence
usedIn Achaemenid Empire
Kingdom of Elam
linked to: Elam
wordOrder subject–object–verb
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Elamite cuneiform
Linear Elamite

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (31)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Achaemenid Empire ethnicGroup Elamites
linked to: Elamite
Akkadian influenced Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Department of Near Eastern Antiquities focusesOn Elamite civilization
linked to: Elamite
Anshan languageUsed Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Anshan hasWritingSystem Elamite cuneiform
linked to: Elamite
Persian court usedLanguage Elamite
King of Anzan hasLanguage Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Susiana languageFamilyAssociated Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Elamite kingdom of Anshan language Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Anshan (Persia) languageAttested Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Proto-Elamite period hasResearchField Elamite studies
linked to: Elamite
Old Elamite period hasLanguage Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Middle Elamite period hasLanguage Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Neo-Elamite period languageUsed Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Elamite cuneiform writingSystemFor Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Elamite cuneiform languageFamilyWritten Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Linear Elamite writingSystemFor Elamite language
linked to: Elamite
Elamite period associatedWithLanguage Elamite language
linked to: Elamite