The Elamite Cuneiform is a script which was used from about 2500 BC to 331 AD and was adapted from
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Elamite language — language name=Elamite familycolor=Isolate states=Elamite Empire (extinct) region=Middle East extinct=by the end of the 4th century BCE family=possible language isolate, but see Elamo Dravidian languages iso2=elx|iso3=elxElamite is an extinct… … Wikipedia
cuneiform — An early form of writing developed by the Sumerians perhaps between 3500 and 3000 B.C. The earliest examples were discovered in the ruins of the city of Uruk. Whether or not it originated there, after its introduction cuneiform writing rapidly … Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary
Cuneiform — redirects here. For other uses, see Cuneiform (disambiguation). Sumerian inscription in monumental archaic style, c. 26th century BC … Wikipedia
cuneiform — /kyooh nee euh fawrm , kyooh nee euh /, adj. 1. having the form of a wedge; wedge shaped. 2. composed of slim triangular or wedge shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and… … Universalium
Cuneiform script — Infobox Writing system name=Cuneiform type=Logographic typedesc=and syllabic languages=Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hattic, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian, Urartian time=ca. 30th century BCE to 1st century CE fam1=(Proto writing) children=Old… … Wikipedia
Elamite language — extinct language spoken by the Elamites in the ancient country of Elam, which included the region from the Mesopotamian plain to the Iranian Plateau. Elamite documents from three historical periods have been found. The earliest Elamite… … Universalium
CUNEIFORM — A system of writing in which a cut reed stylus is pressed into soft clay to leave a wedgelike imprint (Latin cuneus). It was invented in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium B.C. Different versions of cuneiform writing were used to write… … Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia
Elamite — /ee leuh muyt /, n. 1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Elam. 2. Also, Elamitic. a language of unknown affinities, spoken by the Elamites as late as the 1st century B.C., written c3500 c2500 B.C. in a linear script and thereafter in a cuneiform… … Universalium
Elamite — E•lam•ite [[t]ˈi ləˌmaɪt[/t]] n. 1) a native or inhabitant of ancient Elam 2) peo the extinct languageof the Elamites, known principally from texts written in a cuneiform syllabary between the 13th and 5th centuries b.c. 3) of or pertaining to… … From formal English to slang
Proto-Elamite — The Proto Elamite period is the time of ca. 3200 BC to 2700 BC when Susa, the later capital of the Elamites began to receive influence from the cultures of the Iranian plateau. In archaeological terms this corresponds to the late Banesh period.… … Wikipedia
