Elamite language

Elamite
Tablet of Elamite script
Native to	Elam
Region	Western Asia, Iran
Era	c. 2800–300 BC (Later unwritten forms might have survived until 1000 AD?)
Language family	Language isolate
Early form	language of Proto-Elamite?
Writing system	Linear Elamite, Elamite cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-2	elx
ISO 639-3	elx
Linguist List	elx
Glottolog	elam1244

Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites. It was recorded in what is now southwestern Iran from 2600 BC to 330 BC.^[1] Elamite works disappear from the archeological record after Alexander the Great entered Iran, but the spoken language might have survived until the 11th century AD.^{[citation needed]} Elamite is generally thought to have no demonstrable relatives and is usually considered a language isolate. The lack of established relatives makes its interpretation difficult.^[2]

A sizeable number of Elamite lexemes are known from the Achaemenid royal inscriptions – bilingual or trilingual inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire, in which Elamite was written using Elamite cuneiform (circa 400 BC), which is fully deciphered. An important dictionary of the Elamite language, the Elamisches Wörterbuch was published in 1987 by W. Hinz and H. Koch.^[3][4] The Linear Elamite script however, one of the scripts used to write the Elamite language circa 2000 BC, has remained elusive until recently.^[5]