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The Elamite language
- Introduction
- Previous research on the Elamite language
- Textual evidence
- Proto-Elamite (c. 3100–2900 BCE) and Linear Elamite (c. 2140 BCE)
- Old Elamite (c. 2250–1500 BCE)
- Middle Elamite (c. 1500–1000 BCE)
- Neo-Elamite (c. 1000–530 BCE)
- Achaemenid Elamite (c. 530–331 BCE)
- Post-Achaemenid Elamite (c. 331 BCE – 14th century CE)
- Writing system and phonology
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Nominals
- Pronouns
- Personal pronouns
- Resumptive pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Relative and interrogative pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Adjectival pronouns
- Negation
- Particles
- Numerals
- Adverbs
- Postpositions
- Verbal morphology
- Conjugations
- Nomino-verbal forms
- Verbal modes
- Syntax
- Coordination
- Subordination
- Direct discourse
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
Abstract
Elamite is a language that was spoken in the southwest of Iran between at least the 23rd and the 4th century BCE; the period in which it is attested epigraphically. The Elamite language is completely isolated and partly because of this status is not yet fully known. There may be a distant link to the Dravidian languages (cf. McAlpin 1981) in the sense that a Proto-Elamo-Dravidian language which split up into a Dravidian and Elamite family in the 5th millennium BCE can possibly be reconstructed, but unfortunately this does not help modern scholars in their study of the still not completely understood Elamite language.
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