NOUN
- a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC
- an extinct ancient language of unknown affinities; spoken by the Elamites
How To Use Elamite In A Sentence
- His asides on Brahui (the Dravidian language that may be a missing link between India and the Persian-empire tongue Elamite) and Ket (the Siberian language with plausible ties to Navajo) are as diverting as anything in his book. Back to Babel
- In 1844, he scaled the almost sheer cliffs of Bisitun, in Persia, copying relief sculptures and their accompanying cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
- Proto-Elamitepreceded a partially deciphered script, Linear Elamite, used in thesame area 750 years later.
- It was only in the year 645 BCE that king Assurbanipal, taking advantage of the weakness of the Elamite kingdom, set out to right that ancient wrong. Archive 2008-01-01
- Elamite names of Tišpak and Šušinak, "the Susian goddess. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
- They were written in Elamite, the language of the Persian chancellery, and deal with economic transactions up till 493.
