Proto-Elamite

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Data

Alternate Names Achaemenid Elamite, Linear Elamite
ISO 15924 Pelm 016
Type Alpha-Syllabary Morphographic
Family Language Isolate
Direction LtR
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 378
Earliest Location Tepe Yahya
Earliest Date 329 BCE
Latest Date 2200 BCE
Ancestry
    • Proto-Elamite

Overview

We recognize that there are multiple distinct Elamite scripts, however, scripts listed are organized by standards set by ISO 15924. We will attempt to update scripts as ISO changes are made.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Gragg, Gene 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Mesopotamian Cuneiform "Other Languages", 58-61 Oxford University Press
Hinz, Walther 1975 The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Problems of Linear Elamite, 106-115 Cambridge University Press
McAlpin, David 1974 Language, Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian, 89-101 Linguistic Society of America
Ritner, Robert 1996 The World's Writing Systems, The Proto-Elamite Script, 160-164 Oxford University Press