elamite

This is a classic knowledge-driven decipherment based on our capability to make connections between Cuneiform and Linear Elamite scripts inscriptions recording the same Hatamtite (or Elamite) language text.

There are reasons to believe that the few Linear Elam inscriptions discovered today record the same Elamite language.

There are also some theories (not generally agreed on), that the Elamite language is related to the Dravidian languages.

From there, others working on a published version of the inscription were able to decipher the Elamite and Akkadian languages.

He showed how Proto dravidian and Proto-elamite could have descended from the same parent language - he calls this Proto Zagrosian.

For Linear Elamite pretty much all that is known is inside the new Desset paper and maybe a handful of others.

The decoding of Linear Elamite _may_ help in the decipherment of the Indus Valley Script.

This was written in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian, all in the cuneiform script.

But Desset argues that Linear Elamite takes an approach more like the modern alphabet.

Dessets argument is that Linear Elamite went through such a reduction first.

I didn't know of Linear Elamite before, but the language's name evokes the project of studying ancient history, as does the domain.

For Elamite the language we have sources written in the Akkadian script.

Can someone explain: Why is it called "linear" Elamite?

Ironically, after watching "The Emperor's Club", Shutruk-Nahunte is the only Elamite leader I'm aware of, and I had to look up the name of the film to write this comment.

But with truly lost scripts like Linear A or Proto-Elamite, we run into two problems: there are only a few hundred very short texts, and we don’t have any bilingual “Rosetta Stone” to anchor them.

In this sense the proposed "Aegean Linear Script" is not different than cuneiform, which has originally been developed to write the Sumerian language and has been adapted over time to write such diverse (and unrelated) languages as Akkadian (Eastern Semitic), Hittite (Indo European) and Elamite (isolate?[1]).

Only in contexts outside of Akkadia (Hittite, late Elamite) were the reduced syllabaries used in almost pure form.

David McAlpin et al have presented compelling evidence that Brahui is a sibling language to Elamite.

The Rosetta Stone is the most famous of these; for cuneiform, the key was apparently a trilingual Old Persian/Elamite/Akkadian inscription (the ‘Behistun inscription’).